> > On 8/5/16 10:31 PM, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> My auditor, who does not use ledger, wants me to give him trial balances. >> How can I create trial balance from ledger? > > Going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balance , I think this is a > report showing that all credits and debits to all accounts (assets, > liabilities, revenues, expenses.. and equity ? guess so) add up to 0. > > "ledger balance" should show a 0 grand total. Is that a trial balance report > ? I always feel it's not quite the same since we don't separate credits and > debits as strictly. > > I'd like to figure it out once and for all. Do we lose information by using > signed posting amounts, compared to traditional debit and credit practice ? > Or are they literally just different notations ? > > And, there's this: "ledger balance --dc". > >
This is it! Thanks. For me, signed amounts bring sanity to accounting. So, thumbs up for that. Vikas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/39B7606F-5507-48D0-8C22-322FB8400F7D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
