From 62cd34ae8a241ef5d5c9022ae302dab30c91dda9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Goldstein Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 14:27:05 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ;doc: adjust traditional top level accounts Across the rest of the documentation and other accounting documentation it appears to imply that the more traditional top level name would be revenue. In fact the income statement says that is a subtraction between revenue and expenses to derive the income. While the account types that hledger supports are named revenue so it seems more natural to name this revenue. --- hledger/hledger.m4.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hledger/hledger.m4.md b/hledger/hledger.m4.md index 49cf67a03..c8a407f3f 100644 --- a/hledger/hledger.m4.md +++ b/hledger/hledger.m4.md @@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ flag or `real:1` query. Account names typically have several parts separated by a full colon, from which hledger derives a hierarchical chart of accounts. They can be anything you like, but in finance there are traditionally five top-level -accounts: `assets`, `liabilities`, `income`, `expenses`, and `equity`. +accounts: `assets`, `liabilities`, `revenue`, `expenses`, and `equity`. Account names may contain single spaces, eg: `assets:accounts receivable`. Because of this, they must always be followed by **two or more spaces** (or newline).