Abandon is a text based, double-entry accounting system. It’s forked from ledger.
Transactions are entered in plain text files. You can use your favorite text editor to edit these files, and can use your favorite VCS for versioning and collaboration.
From these input text files, Abandon can present textual reports or graphical reports. The graphical reports are useful when you need to interactively explore the data.
In addition, PDF reports can be generated using abandon-reports. PDFs are useful when you need to print the report or share it with someone by email, etc.
Abandon is inspired by Ledger but is simpler to use, has a more regular syntax, has a GUI and is cross-platform. Abandon tries to maintain syntax compatibility with Ledger whenever possible.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Double entry accounting.
- Infinite precision arithmetic.
- Input is through plain-text files. The syntax is well defined and yet human friendly, just like ledger’s.
- Portable across many operating systems; based on the Java platform.
- Reporting: supports both textual and interactive, graphical reports. The GUI watches for changes in input files and automatically refreshes when it detects a change.
- Interactive GUI for viewing report.
- Cross-platform support.
Website: github.com/hrj/abandon
Support:
Developer: hrj
License: Apache License 2.0
Abandon is written in Scala. Learn Scala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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