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title: hledger How to use account aliases
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# How to use account aliases
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Here's an example of using [account aliases](MANUAL.html#account-aliases).
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Say a sole proprietor has a personal.journal:
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1/1
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expenses:food $1
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assets:cash
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and a business.journal:
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1/1
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expenses:office supplies $1
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assets:business checking
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Here each entity has a simple journal with its own simple chart of
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accounts. But at tax reporting time, we need to view these as a single
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entity. So in unified.journal we adjust the personal account names to fit
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within the business chart of accounts:
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alias expenses = equity:draw:personal
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alias assets:cash = assets:personal cash
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include personal.journal
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end aliases
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include business.journal
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giving:
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$ hledger -f unified.journal print
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2011/01/01
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equity:draw:personal:food $1
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assets:personal cash $-1
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2011/01/01
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expenses:office supplies $1
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assets:business checking $-1
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You can also specify aliases on the command line. This could be useful to
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rewrite account names when sharing a report with someone else, such as
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your accountant:
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$ hledger --alias 'my earning=income:business'
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Command-line alias options are applied after any alias directives in the
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journal. At most one alias directive and one alias option will be applied
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to each account name.
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