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Income vs expenses this month?
$ ledger balance income expenses --period "this month"
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What did my budget look like at a certain date?
$ ledger balance budget --end 2018-01-02
This is how it looked at the end of the day on Jan 1, 2018.
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How much is in the checking account right now?
$ ledger balance checking
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What is our net worth?
$ ledger balance ^assets ^liabilities --real
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How much money have we made?
$ ledger balance income
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How much money have we made from our salaries?
$ ledger balance income:salary
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How much do we spend each month on x?
$ ledger register -M expenses:groceries:food
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Group transactions by payee
$ ledger register --by-payee
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Only show uncleared transactions
$ ledger register --uncleared
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Do I have enough budgeted to pay off my credit cards?
$ ledger balance creditcard
It should be $0.00. If it's not $0.00, run this with different dates to find the problem:
$ ledger balance creditcard --end 2018-02-01
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Import
Change Chase checking from:
Details,Posting Date,Description,Amount,Type,Balance,Check or Slip #
to:
,Date,Payee,Amount,,,Code
Change Chase Credit Card from:
Type,Trans Date,Post Date,Description,Amount
to:
,Date,Posted,Payee,Amount
$ ledger convert ~/Downloads/checking.CSV --input-date-format "%m/%d/%Y" --invert --account Assets:Checking --rich-data -f budget.ledger --auto-match --pager less
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Expenses each month (sorted)
$ ledger -M --period-sort "(amount)" reg ^expenses
This will show all expenses, grouped by month and sorted by the amount.
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How much do we spend on credit cards each month?
$ ledger -M -r --display 'account=~/creditcard/' reg ^expenses
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Common Ledger CLI Commands
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