Finance

2286 readers

4 users here now

Economic and financial news from around the world, including cryptocurrency and blockchain.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Personal Accounting: Do You Do It? How? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi all,

So I started YNAB a few years ago, and found myself enjoying the accounting aspects more than the budgeting aspects. When the price kicked up, I thought I'd explore the personal accounting space some more.

So I started using GNUCash and learned about double entry accounting. Which was fun sometimes, less fun other times. I liked that I could use Git with the save file, didn't like entering every. single. transaction. manually. I could never figure out the bank sync.

Eventually, I switched to Quicken, and have been mostly OK with it so far (on Mac). Though I'm still not used to using Reports and the like for personal analytics, the mobile app is clunky, and I occasionally run into wonky bugs with sync or with the general app.

How do you all go about tracking funds in accounts, if at all?

Thanks!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use a text based double entry accounting system called beancount. It's a bit techy but it's easy to extend with automatic account selection and custom reports. I have a plugin for my editor that makes working with the file much easier. It has a frontend called Fava which is a bit too double entry accounting focused for me so I don't tend to use all of it's features. I'm usually just interested in seeing how much I'm spending on a subset of expense accounts over time.

Beancount: https://beancount.github.io/ Fava: https://beancount.github.io/fava/ Editor plugin: https://github.com/polarmutex/beancount-language-server