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@ -13,7 +13,129 @@ Perform some subset of reports available in core hledger but process automated
and periodic transactions. Also simplify tree of accounts to ease view of and periodic transactions. Also simplify tree of accounts to ease view of
"budget buckets". "budget buckets".
This addon tries to simulate behavior of "ledger --budget". For people familiar with [`ledger`
budgeting](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting) may
consider this tool as an alias to `ledger --budget`.
With this tool you may either use so called periodic transactions that being
issued with each new period or use a family of approaches with automated
transactions. You may want to look at [budgeting section of
plaintextaccounting](http://plaintextaccounting.org/#budgeting).
Periodic transaction that being interpreted by this tool may look like:
```ledger
~ monthly from 2017/3
income:salary $-4,000.00
expenses:taxes $1,000
expenses:housing:rent $1,200
expenses:grocery $400
expenses:leisure $200
expenses:health $200
expenses $100
assets:savings
```
Header of such entries starts with `'~'` (tilde symbol) following by an
interval with an effect period when transactions should be injected.
Effect of declaring such periodic transaction is:
- Transactions will be injected at the beginning of each period. I.e. for
monthly it will always refer to 1st day of month.
- Injected transaction will have inverted amounts to offset existing associated
expenses. I.e. for this example negative balance indicates how much you have
within your budget and positive amounts indicates how far you off from your
budget.
- Set of accounts across of all periodic transactions will form kinda buckets
where rest of the accounts will be sorted into. Each account not mentioned in
any of periodic transaction will be dropped without changing of balance for
parent account. I.e. for this example postings for `expenses:leisure:movie`
will contribute to the balance of `expenses:leisure` only in reports.
Note that beside a periodic transaction all automated transactions will be
handled in a similar way how they are handled in `rewrite` command.
#### Bucketing
It is very common to have more expense accounts than budget
"envelopes"/"buckets". For this reason all periodic transactions are treated as
a source of information about your budget "buckets".
I.e. example from previous section will build a sub-tree of accounts that look like
```
assets:savings
expenses
taxes
housing:rent
grocery
leisure
health
income:salary
```
All accounts used in your transactions journal files will be classified
according to that tree to contribute to an appropriate bucket of budget.
Everything else will be collected under virtual account `<unbucketed>` to give
you an idea of what parts of your accounts tree is not budgeted. For example
`liabilities` will contributed to that entry.
#### Reports
You can use `budget` command to produce next reports:
- `balance` - the most important one to track how you follow your budget. If
you use month-based budgeting you may want to use `--monthly` and
`--row-total` option to see how you are doing through the months. You also
may find it useful to add `--tree` option to see aggregated totals per
intermediate node of accounts tree.
- `register` - might be useful if you want to see long history (ex. `--weekly`)
that is too wide to fit into your terminal.
- `print` - this is mostly to check what actually happens. But you may use it
if you prefer to generate budget transactions and store it in a separate
journal for some less popular budgeting scheme.
#### Extra options for reports
You may tweak behavior of this command with additional options `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing`.
- Don't use these options if your budgeting schema includes both periodic
transactions, and "bucketing". Unless you want to figure out how your
budgeting might look like. You may find helpful values of average column from
report
```shell
$ hledger budget -- bal --period 'monthly to last month' --no-offset --average
```
- Use `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing` if your schema fully relies on
automated transactions and hand-crafted budgeting transactions. In this mode
only automated transactions will be processed. I.e. when you journal looks
something like
```ledger
= ^expenses:food
budget:gifts *-1
assets:budget *1
2017/1/1 Budget for Jan
assets:bank $-1000
budget:gifts $200
budget:misc
```
- Use `--no-bucketing` only if you want to produce a valid journal. For example
when you want to pass it as an input for other `hledger` command. Most people
will find this useless.
#### Recommendations
- Automated transaction should follow same rules that usual transactions follow
(i.e. keep balance for real and balanced virtual postings).
- Don't change the balance of real asset and liability accounts for which you
usually put assertions. Keep in mind that `hledger` do not apply modification
transactions.
- In periodic transactions to offset your budget use either top-level account
like `Assets` or introduce a "virtual" one like `Assets:Bank:Budget` that
will be a child to the one you want to offset.
-} -}
import Control.Arrow (first) import Control.Arrow (first)

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@ -18,13 +18,16 @@ import Hledger.Cli
cmdmode :: Mode RawOpts cmdmode :: Mode RawOpts
cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "equity") { cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "equity") {
modeHelp = [here| modeHelp = [here|
Print a "closing balances" transaction that brings all accounts (or with Print a "closing balances" transaction that brings all accounts (or with
query arguments, just the matched accounts) to a zero balance, followed by an query arguments, just the matched accounts) to a zero balance, followed by an
opposite "opening balances" transaction that restores the balances from zero. opposite "opening balances" transaction that restores the balances from zero.
Such transactions can be useful, eg, for bringing account balances across Such transactions can be useful, eg, for bringing account balances across
file boundaries. file boundaries.
|] |]
,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here| ,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
The opening balances transaction is useful to carry over The opening balances transaction is useful to carry over
asset/liability balances if you choose to start a new journal file, asset/liability balances if you choose to start a new journal file,
eg at the beginning of the year. eg at the beginning of the year.
@ -39,20 +42,22 @@ the closing transaction is dated one day earlier). If a report end
date is not specified, it defaults to today. date is not specified, it defaults to today.
Example: Example:
``` ```shell
$ hledger equity -f 2015.journal -e 2016/1/1 assets liabilities >>2015.journal $ hledger equity -f 2015.journal -e 2016/1/1 assets liabilities >>2015.journal
# & move the opening balances transaction to 2016.journal # move the opening balances transaction to 2016.journal
$ hledger -f 2015.journal bal assets liabilities not:desc:closing # shows correct 2015 balances
$ hledger -f 2016.journal bal assets liabilities # shows correct 2016 balances
$ hledger -f 2015.journal -f 2016.journal bal assets liabilities # still shows correct 2016 balances
``` ```
Open question: how to handle txns spanning a file boundary ? Eg: Open question: how to handle txns spanning a file boundary ? Eg:
```journal ```journal
2015/12/30 * food 2015/12/30 * food
expenses:food:dining $10 expenses:food:dining $10
assets:bank:checking -$10 ; date:2016/1/4 assets:bank:checking -$10 ; date:2016/1/4
``` ```
This command might or might not have some connection to the concept of This command might or might not have some connection to the concept of
"closing the books" in accounting. "closing the books" in accounting.
|] |]
,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY]") ,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY]")
} }

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@ -15,10 +15,23 @@ import Hledger.Cli
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "print-unique") { cmdmode = (defAddonCommandMode "print-unique") {
modeHelp = [here| modeHelp = [here|
Print only journal entries which are unique by description (or Remove transactions which reuse an already-seen description.
something else). Reads the default or specified journal, or stdin.
|] |]
,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here| ,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
Example:
```shell
$ cat unique.journal
1/1 test
(acct:one) 1
2/2 test
(acct:two) 2
$ LEDGER_FILE=unique.journal hledger print-unique
(-f option not supported)
2015/01/01 test
(acct:one) 1
```
|] |]
} }
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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@ -31,14 +31,15 @@ cmdmode =
in m { in m {
modeHelp = [here| modeHelp = [here|
Print all journal entries, with custom postings added to the matched ones Print all transactions, adding custom postings to the matched ones.
|] |]
,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here| ,modeHelpSuffix=lines [here|
A start at a generic rewriter of journal entries. This is a start at a generic rewriter of transaction entries.
Reads the default journal and prints the entries, like print, It reads the default journal and prints the transactions, like print,
but adds the specified postings to any entries matching PATTERNS. but adds one or more specified postings to any transactions matching QUERY.
The posting amounts can be fixed, or a multiplier of the existing transaction's first posting amount.
Examples: Examples:
``` ```
@ -55,15 +56,101 @@ rewrites.hledger may consist of entries like:
``` ```
Note the single quotes to protect the dollar sign from bash, Note the single quotes to protect the dollar sign from bash,
and the two spaces between account and amount. and the two spaces between account and amount.
See the command-line help for more details.
Currently does not work when invoked via hledger, run it directly instead.
Related: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/99 More:
TODO: ```shell
- should allow regex matching and interpolating matched name in replacement $ hledger rewrite -- [QUERY] --add-posting "ACCT AMTEXPR" ...
- should apply all matching rules to a transaction, not just one $ hledger rewrite -- ^income --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
- should be possible to use this on unbalanced entries, eg while editing one $ hledger rewrite -- expenses:gifts --add-posting '(budget:gifts) *-1"'
```
Argument for `--add-posting` option is a usual posting of transaction with an
exception for amount specification. More precisely you can use `'*'` (star
symbol) in place of currency to indicate that that this is a factor for an
amount of original matched posting.
#### Re-write rules in a file
During the run this tool will execute so called
["Automated Transactions"](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Automated-Transactions)
found in any journal it process. I.e instead of specifying this operations in
command line you can put them in a journal file.
```shell
$ rewrite-rules.journal
```
Make contents look like this:
```journal
= ^income
(liabilities:tax) *.33
= expenses:gifts
budget:gifts *-1
assets:budget *1
```
Note that `'='` (equality symbol) that is used instead of date in transactions
you usually write. It indicates the query by which you want to match the
posting to add new ones.
```shell
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal -f rewrite-rules.journal > rewritten-tidy-output.journal
```
This is something similar to the commands pipeline:
```shell
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33' \
| hledger rewrite -- -f - expenses:gifts --add-posting 'budget:gifts *-1' \
--add-posting 'assets:budget *1' \
> rewritten-tidy-output.journal
```
It is important to understand that relative order of such entries in journal is
important. You can re-use result of previously added postings.
#### Diff output format
To use this tool for batch modification of your journal files you may find
useful output in form of unified diff.
```shell
$ hledger rewrite -- --diff -f examples/sample.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
```
Output might look like:
```diff
--- /tmp/examples/sample.journal
+++ /tmp/examples/sample.journal
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
2008/01/01 income
- assets:bank:checking $1
+ assets:bank:checking $1
income:salary
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
@@ -22,3 +23,4 @@
2008/06/01 gift
- assets:bank:checking $1
+ assets:bank:checking $1
income:gifts
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
```
If you'll pass this through `patch` tool you'll get transactions containing the
posting that matches your query be updated. Note that multiple files might be
update according to list of input files specified via `--file` options and
`include` directives inside of these files.
Be careful. Whole transaction being re-formatted in a style of output from
`hledger print`.
See also:
https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/99
|] |]
,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY] --add-posting \"ACCT AMTEXPR\" ...") ,modeArgs = ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY] --add-posting \"ACCT AMTEXPR\" ...")
@ -77,6 +164,10 @@ TODO:
} }
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- TODO regex matching and interpolating matched name in replacement
-- TODO interpolating match groups in replacement
-- TODO allow using this on unbalanced entries, eg to rewrite while editing
outputflags :: [Flag RawOpts] outputflags :: [Flag RawOpts]
outputflags = [flagNone ["diff"] (setboolopt "diff") "generate diff suitable as an input for patch tool"] outputflags = [flagNone ["diff"] (setboolopt "diff") "generate diff suitable as an input for patch tool"]

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@ -604,74 +604,24 @@ Here are some hledger add-ons available from Hackage,
the [extra](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/extra) directory in the hledger source, the [extra](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/extra) directory in the hledger source,
or elsewhere: or elsewhere:
## api ## Official add-ons
These are maintained and released along with hledger.
### api
Web API server, see [hledger-api](hledger-api.html). Web API server, see [hledger-api](hledger-api.html).
## autosync ### ui
Download OFX bank data and/or convert OFX to hledger journal format. Curses-style interface, see [hledger-ui](hledger-ui.html).
```shell ### web
$ hledger autosync --help Web interface, see [hledger-web](hledger-web.html).
usage: hledger-autosync [-h] [-m MAX] [-r] [-a ACCOUNT] [-l LEDGER] [-i INDENT]
[--initial] [--fid FID] [--assertions] [-d] [--hledger]
[--slow] [--which]
[PATH]
Synchronize ledger. ## Third party add-ons
positional arguments: These are maintained separately from hledger, and usually updated shortly after a hledger release.
PATH do not sync; import from OFX file
optional arguments: ### diff
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-m MAX, --max MAX maximum number of days to process
-r, --resync do not stop until max days reached
-a ACCOUNT, --account ACCOUNT
set account name for import
-l LEDGER, --ledger LEDGER
specify ledger file to READ for syncing
-i INDENT, --indent INDENT
number of spaces to use for indentation
--initial create initial balance entries
--fid FID pass in fid value for OFX files that do not supply it
--assertions create balance assertion entries
-d, --debug enable debug logging
--hledger force use of hledger (on by default if invoked as hledger-
autosync)
--slow use slow, but possibly more robust, method of calling ledger
(no subprocess)
--which display which version of ledger/hledger/ledger-python will
be used by ledger-autosync to check for previous
transactions
$ head acct1.ofx
OFXHEADER:100
DATA:OFXSGML
VERSION:102
SECURITY:NONE
ENCODING:USASCII
CHARSET:1252
COMPRESSION:NONE
OLDFILEUID:NONE
NEWFILEUIDe:8509488b59d1bb45
$ hledger autosync acct1.ofx
2013/08/30 MONTHLY SERVICE FEE
; ofxid: 3000.4303001832.201308301
WF:4303001832 -$6.00
[assets:business:bank:wf:bchecking:banking] $6.00
```
[ledger-autosync](https://bitbucket.org/egh/ledger-autosync/commits/all),
which includes a `hledger-autosync` alias, downloads transactions
from your bank(s) via OFX, and prints just the new ones as journal
entries which you can add to your journal. It can also operate on .OFX
files which you've downloaded manually. It can be a nice alternative
to hledger's built-in CSV reader, especially if your bank supports OFX
download.
## diff
Show transactions present in one journal file but not another Show transactions present in one journal file but not another
```shell ```shell
@ -703,45 +653,7 @@ transactions affecting that account which are in one journal file but
not in the other. This can be useful for reconciling existing not in the other. This can be useful for reconciling existing
journals with bank statements. journals with bank statements.
## equity ### interest
Print a journal entry that resets account balances to zero.
```shell
$ hledger balance --flat -E assets liabilities
0 assets:bank:checking
$1 assets:bank:saving
$-2 assets:cash
$1 liabilities:debts
--------------------
0
$ hledger equity assets liabilities
2015/05/23
assets:bank:saving $-1
assets:cash $2
liabilities:debts $-1
equity:closing balances 0
2015/05/23
assets:bank:saving $1
assets:cash $-2
liabilities:debts $1
equity:opening balances 0
```
This prints a journal entry which zeroes out the specified accounts
(or all accounts) with a transfer to/from "equity:closing balances"
(like Ledger's equity command). Also, it prints an similar entry with
opposite sign for restoring the balances from "equity:opening
balances".
These can be useful for ending one journal file and starting a new
one, respectively. By zeroing your asset and liability accounts at the
end of a file and restoring them at the start of the next one, you
will see correct asset/liability balances whether you run hledger on
just one file, or on several files concatenated with [include](#include).
## interest
Generate interest transactions. Generate interest transactions.
```shell ```shell
@ -833,7 +745,7 @@ supports a (small) number of interest schemes, i.e. annual interest
with a fixed rate and the scheme mandated by the German BGB288 with a fixed rate and the scheme mandated by the German BGB288
(Basiszins für Verbrauchergeschäfte). See the package page for more. (Basiszins für Verbrauchergeschäfte). See the package page for more.
## irr ### irr
Calculate internal rate of return. Calculate internal rate of return.
```shell ```shell
@ -902,248 +814,50 @@ fees, or cost), it calculates the hypothetical annual rate of fixed
rate investment that would have provided the exact same cash flow. rate investment that would have provided the exact same cash flow.
See the package page for more. See the package page for more.
## print-unique ## Experimental add-ons
Print only only journal entries which have a unique description.
These add-ons are available in source form
[in the hledger repo](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/bin).
Installing them is [pretty easy](/download.html#d).
Reading and copying these is a good way to start making your own add-ons.
```shell ### budget
$ cat unique.journal
1/1 test
(acct:one) 1
2/2 test
(acct:two) 2
$ LEDGER_FILE=unique.journal hledger print-unique
(-f option not supported)
2015/01/01 test
(acct:one) 1
``` [hledger-budget.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-budget.hs#L10)
A tool adding more budget-tracking features to hledger.
## rewrite ### chart
Prints all journal entries, adding specified custom postings to matched entries.
[hledger-rewrite.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-rewrite.hs), [hledger-chart.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-chart.hs#L47)
in hledger's extra directory (compilation optional), adds postings to existing transactions, An old pie chart generator, in need of some love.
optionally with an amount based on the existing transaction's first amount. See the script for more details.
```shell ### check-dates
$ hledger rewrite -- [QUERY] --add-posting "ACCT AMTEXPR" ...
$ hledger rewrite -- ^income --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
$ hledger rewrite -- expenses:gifts --add-posting '(budget:gifts) *-1"'
```
Argument for `--add-posting` option is a usual posting of transaction with an [hledger-check-dates.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-check-dates.hs#L15)
exception for amount specification. More precisely you can use `'*'` (star Checks that journal entries are ordered by date.
symbol) in place of currency to indicate that that this is a factor for an
amount of original matched posting.
### Re-write rules in a file ### dupes
During the run this tool will execute so called [hledger-dupes.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-dupes.hs#L21)
["Automated Transactions"](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Automated-Transactions) Checks for account names sharing the same leaf name.
found in any journal it process. I.e instead of specifying this operations in
command line you can put them in a journal file.
```shell ### equity
$ rewrite-rules.journal
```
Make contents look like this: [hledger-equity.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-equity.hs#L17)
Prints balance-resetting transactions useful for bringing account balances across file boundaries.
```journal ### print-unique
= ^income
(liabilities:tax) *.33
= expenses:gifts [print-unique](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-print-unique.hs#L15)
budget:gifts *-1 Remove transactions which reuse an already-seen description.
assets:budget *1
```
Note that `'='` (equality symbol) that is used instead of date in transactions ### register-match
you usually write. It indicates the query by which you want to match the
posting to add new ones.
```shell [hledger-register-match.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-register-match.hs#L23)
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal -f rewrite-rules.journal > rewritten-tidy-output.journal Helps ledger-autosync recognise already-imported transactions.
```
This is something similar to the commands pipeline: ### rewrite
```shell [hledger-rewrite.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-rewrite.hs#L28)
$ hledger rewrite -- -f input.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33' \ Adds one or more custom postings to matched transactions.
| hledger rewrite -- -f - expenses:gifts --add-posting 'budget:gifts *-1' \
--add-posting 'assets:budget *1' \
> rewritten-tidy-output.journal
```
It is important to understand that relative order of such entries in journal is
important. You can re-use result of previously added postings.
### Diff output format
To use this tool for batch modification of your journal files you may find
useful output in form of unified diff.
```shell
$ hledger rewrite -- --diff -f examples/sample.journal '^income' --add-posting '(liabilities:tax) *.33'
```
Output might look like:
```diff
--- /tmp/examples/sample.journal
+++ /tmp/examples/sample.journal
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
2008/01/01 income
- assets:bank:checking $1
+ assets:bank:checking $1
income:salary
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
@@ -22,3 +23,4 @@
2008/06/01 gift
- assets:bank:checking $1
+ assets:bank:checking $1
income:gifts
+ (liabilities:tax) 0
```
If you'll pass this through `patch` tool you'll get transactions containing the
posting that matches your query be updated. Note that multiple files might be
update according to list of input files specified via `--file` options and
`include` directives inside of these files.
Be careful. Whole transaction being re-formatted in a style of output from
`hledger print`.
## budget
This tool helps to get reports useful for planning and tracking the budget.
For people familiar with [`ledger`
budgeting](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting) may
consider this tool as an alias to `ledger --budget`.
With this tool you may either use so called periodic transactions that being
issued with each new period or use a family of approaches with automated
transactions. You may want to look at [budgeting section of
plaintextaccounting](http://plaintextaccounting.org/#budgeting).
Periodic transaction that being interpreted by this tool may look like:
```ledger
~ monthly from 2017/3
income:salary $-4,000.00
expenses:taxes $1,000
expenses:housing:rent $1,200
expenses:grocery $400
expenses:leisure $200
expenses:health $200
expenses $100
assets:savings
```
Header of such entries starts with `'~'` (tilde symbol) following by an
interval with an effect period when transactions should be injected.
Effect of declaring such periodic transaction is:
- Transactions will be injected at the beginning of each period. I.e. for
monthly it will always refer to 1st day of month.
- Injected transaction will have inverted amounts to offset existing associated
expenses. I.e. for this example negative balance indicates how much you have
within your budget and positive amounts indicates how far you off from your
budget.
- Set of accounts across of all periodic transactions will form kinda buckets
where rest of the accounts will be sorted into. Each account not mentioned in
any of periodic transaction will be dropped without changing of balance for
parent account. I.e. for this example postings for `expenses:leisure:movie`
will contribute to the balance of `expenses:leisure` only in reports.
Note that beside a periodic transaction all automated transactions will be
handled in a similar way how they are handled in `rewrite` command.
### Bucketing
It is very common to have more expense accounts than budget
"envelopes"/"buckets". For this reason all periodic transactions are treated as
a source of information about your budget "buckets".
I.e. example from previous section will build a sub-tree of accounts that look like
```
assets:savings
expenses
taxes
housing:rent
grocery
leisure
health
income:salary
```
All accounts used in your transactions journal files will be classified
according to that tree to contribute to an appropriate bucket of budget.
Everything else will be collected under virtual account `<unbucketed>` to give
you an idea of what parts of your accounts tree is not budgeted. For example
`liabilities` will contributed to that entry.
### Reports
You can use `budget` command to produce next reports:
- `balance` - the most important one to track how you follow your budget. If
you use month-based budgeting you may want to use `--monthly` and
`--row-total` option to see how you are doing through the months. You also
may find it useful to add `--tree` option to see aggregated totals per
intermediate node of accounts tree.
- `register` - might be useful if you want to see long history (ex. `--weekly`)
that is too wide to fit into your terminal.
- `print` - this is mostly to check what actually happens. But you may use it
if you prefer to generate budget transactions and store it in a separate
journal for some less popular budgeting scheme.
### Extra options for reports
You may tweak behavior of this command with additional options `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing`.
- Don't use these options if your budgeting schema includes both periodic
transactions, and "bucketing". Unless you want to figure out how your
budgeting might look like. You may find helpful values of average column from
report
```shell
$ hledger budget -- bal --period 'monthly to last month' --no-offset --average
```
- Use `--no-offset` and `--no-bucketing` if your schema fully relies on
automated transactions and hand-crafted budgeting transactions. In this mode
only automated transactions will be processed. I.e. when you journal looks
something like
```ledger
= ^expenses:food
budget:gifts *-1
assets:budget *1
2017/1/1 Budget for Jan
assets:bank $-1000
budget:gifts $200
budget:misc
```
- Use `--no-bucketing` only if you want to produce a valid journal. For example
when you want to pass it as an input for other `hledger` command. Most people
will find this useless.
### Recommendations
- Automated transaction should follow same rules that usual transactions follow
(i.e. keep balance for real and balanced virtual postings).
- Don't change the balance of real asset and liability accounts for which you
usually put assertions. Keep in mind that `hledger` do not apply modification
transactions.
- In periodic transactions to offset your budget use either top-level account
like `Assets` or introduce a "virtual" one like `Assets:Bank:Budget` that
will be a child to the one you want to offset.
## ui
Curses-style interface, see [hledger-ui](hledger-ui.html).
## web
Web interface, see [hledger-web](hledger-web.html).