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title: hledger docs
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# Docs

**Official hledger docs:**

[Installation Guide](INSTALL.html)
and
[Release Notes](NEWS.html)

[User Manual](MANUAL.html)  (past releases: [0.19.x User Manual](0.19/MANUAL.html), [0.18.x User Manual](0.18/MANUAL.html))

[Contributor Guide](DEVELOPMENT.html)
*, support, community and developer resources*

[FAQ](FAQ.html)
*, in progress*

[Compatibility with ledger](LEDGER.html)

[How to read CSV files](CSV.html)

[How to use account aliases](ALIASES.html)

**More hledger docs:**

[wiki.hledger.org](http://wiki.hledger.org)
*, links, examples...*

**Related:**

[Accounting For Dragons](http://podcastle.org/2009/10/09/pc-miniature-38-accounting-for-dragons)
*, why you need accounting*

[ledger's site](http://ledger-cli.org) and [manual](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html)
*, informative*

[beancount](http://furius.ca/beancount/),
[penny](https://github.com/massysett/penny),
[UMM](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/UMM)
*, more "ledger-likes"*