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### Rewriting accounts ### Rewriting accounts
You can define aliases which rewrite your account names (after reading the journal, You can define account alias rules which rewrite your account names, or parts of them,
before generating reports). hledger's account aliases can be useful for: before generating reports.
This can be useful for:
- expanding shorthand account names to their full form, allowing easier data entry and a less verbose journal - expanding shorthand account names to their full form, allowing easier data entry and a less verbose journal
- adapting old journals to your current chart of accounts - adapting old journals to your current chart of accounts
- experimenting with new account organisations, like a new hierarchy or combining two accounts into one - experimenting with new account organisations, like a new hierarchy or combining two accounts into one
- customising reports - customising reports
Account aliases also affect [account directives](#declaring-accounts). Account aliases also rewrite account names in [account directives](#declaring-accounts).
They do not affect account names being entered via hledger add or hledger-web. They do not affect account names being entered via hledger add or hledger-web.
See also [Cookbook: Rewrite account names](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Rewrite-account-names). See also [Cookbook: Rewrite account names](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Rewrite-account-names).