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   beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files
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.. contents::
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    1  Description
    2  Documentation
    3  Download & Installation
    4  Filing Bugs
    5  Copyright and License
    6  Author


Description
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A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial
transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of
reports from them, and provides a web interface.


Documentation
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Documentation lives on Google Docs. You can find an index to all the available
documents here:

  http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/index

There's a `mailing-list dedicated to Beancount
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beancount>`_, please post questions
there, so others can share in the responses. More general discussions about
command-line accounting also occur on the `Ledger mailing-list
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ledger-cli>`_ so you might be
interested in that group as well.


Download & Installation
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You can obtain the source code from the official Mercurial repository on
BitBucket:

  | http://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/

See the `Installing Beancount`__ document for more details.

__ http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/install


Filing Bugs
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Tickets can be filed at on the BitBucket project page:

  http://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues


Copyright and License
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Copyright (C) 2007-2016  Martin Blais.  All Rights Reserved.

This code is distributed under the terms of the "GNU GPLv2 only".
See COPYING file for details.


Author
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Martin Blais <blais@furius.ca>