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### Rewriting accounts
You can define aliases which rewrite your account names (after reading the journal,
before generating reports). hledger's account aliases can be useful for:
You can define account alias rules which rewrite your account names, or parts of them,
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
- adapting old journals to your current chart of accounts
- experimenting with new account organisations, like a new hierarchy or combining two accounts into one
- 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.
See also [Cookbook: Rewrite account names](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Rewrite-account-names).