Accounting

By labeling financial transactions with categories in Beancount, the tool automatically calculates the subtotals of each category, from which fava generates useful visualizations.

Transactions in a JA Bank account are available for download as a CSV file. Then Pandas reads it for processing.

If conversion scripts are used to translate bank statements into Beancount transactions, there will be two entries for one money transfers; one at the sending account and second at receiving account.

Here are examples of common personal finance transactions recorded in Beancount.

Accounting for Computer Scientist by Martin Kleppmann uses graph theory from computer science to explain accounting.