diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
index 7741bb359..0b6fae97e 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX (POSIXTime)
 import Data.Time.LocalTime (LocalTime)
 import Data.Word (Word8)
 import Text.Blaze (ToMarkup(..))
-import Text.Megaparsec (SourcePos)
+import Text.Megaparsec (SourcePos(SourcePos), mkPos)
 
 import Hledger.Utils.Regex
 
@@ -585,12 +585,14 @@ data AccountDeclarationInfo = AccountDeclarationInfo {
   ,aditags             :: [Tag]  -- ^ tags extracted from the account comment, if any
   ,adideclarationorder :: Int    -- ^ the order in which this account was declared,
                                  --   relative to other account declarations, during parsing (1..)
+  ,adisourcepos        :: SourcePos  -- ^ source file and position
 } deriving (Eq,Show,Generic)
 
 nullaccountdeclarationinfo = AccountDeclarationInfo {
    adicomment          = ""
   ,aditags             = []
   ,adideclarationorder = 0
+  ,adisourcepos        = SourcePos "" (mkPos 1) (mkPos 1)
 }
 
 -- | An account, with its balances, parent/subaccount relationships, etc.
diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Read/JournalReader.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Read/JournalReader.hs
index 2d588fc4c..6ba242c86 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Read/JournalReader.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Read/JournalReader.hs
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ orRethrowIOError io msg = do
 accountdirectivep :: JournalParser m ()
 accountdirectivep = do
   off <- getOffset -- XXX figure out a more precise position later
+  pos <- getSourcePos
 
   string "account"
   lift skipNonNewlineSpaces1
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ accountdirectivep = do
     metype = parseAccountTypeCode <$> lookup accountTypeTagName tags
 
   -- update the journal
-  addAccountDeclaration (acct, cmt, tags)
+  addAccountDeclaration (acct, cmt, tags, pos)
   unless (null tags) $ addDeclaredAccountTags acct tags
   case metype of
     Nothing         -> return ()
@@ -396,18 +397,19 @@ parseAccountTypeCode s =
             T.intercalate ", " ["A","L","E","R","X","C","V","Asset","Liability","Equity","Revenue","Expense","Cash","Conversion"]
 
 -- Add an account declaration to the journal, auto-numbering it.
-addAccountDeclaration :: (AccountName,Text,[Tag]) -> JournalParser m ()
-addAccountDeclaration (a,cmt,tags) =
+addAccountDeclaration :: (AccountName,Text,[Tag],SourcePos) -> JournalParser m ()
+addAccountDeclaration (a,cmt,tags,pos) = do
   modify' (\j ->
              let
                decls = jdeclaredaccounts j
                d     = (a, nullaccountdeclarationinfo{
                               adicomment          = cmt
                              ,aditags             = tags
+                              -- this restarts from 1 in each file, which is not that useful
+                              -- when there are multiple files; so it gets renumbered
+                              -- automatically when combining Journals with <>
                              ,adideclarationorder = length decls + 1
-                               -- this restarts from 1 in each file, which is not that useful
-                               -- when there are multiple files; so it gets renumbered
-                               -- automatically when combining Journals with <>
+                             ,adisourcepos        = pos
                              })
              in
                j{jdeclaredaccounts = d:decls})
@@ -1017,6 +1019,7 @@ tests_JournalReader = testGroup "JournalReader" [
         [("a:b", AccountDeclarationInfo{adicomment          = "type:asset\n"
                                        ,aditags             = [("type","asset")]
                                        ,adideclarationorder = 1
+                                       ,adisourcepos        = fst nullsourcepos
                                        })
         ]
       ]