Beancount Cheat Sheet

Assets:US:BofA:Checking

Assets          +
Liabilities     -
Income          -
Expenses        +
Equity          -

CNY, EUR, CAD, AUD
GOOG, AAPL, RBF1005
HOME_MAYST, AIRMILES
HOURS

YYYY-MM-DD <Directive> <Parameters...>

2001-05-29 open Expenses:Restaurant
2001-05-29 open Assets:Checking     USD,EUR  ; Currency constraints
 
2015-04-23 close Assets:Checking

1998-07-22 commodity AAPL
  name: "Apple Computer Inc."

2015-04-30 price AAPL   125.15 CNY
2015-05-30 price AAPL   130.28 CNY

2013-03-20 note Assets:Checking "Called to ask about rebate"

2013-03-20 document Assets:Checking "path/to/statement.pdf"

2015-05-30 * "Some narration about this transaction"
  Liabilities:CreditCard   -101.23 CNY
  Expenses:Restaurant       101.23 CNY
 
2015-05-30 ! "Cable Co" "Phone Bill" #tag ˆlink
  id: "TW378743437"               ; Meta-data
  Expenses:Home:Phone  87.45 CNY
  Assets:Checking                 ; You may leave one amount out

  ...    123.45 USD                             Simple
  ...        10 GOOG {502.12 USD}               With per-unit cost
  ...        10 GOOG {{5021.20 USD}}            With total cost
  ...        10 GOOG {502.12 # 9.95 USD}        With both costs
  ...   1000.00 USD   @ 1.10 CAD                With per-unit price
  ...        10 GOOG {502.12 USD} @ 1.10 CAD    With cost & price
  ...        10 GOOG {502.12 USD, 2014-05-12}   With date
  ! ...   123.45 USD ...                        With flag

; Asserts the amount for only the given currency:
2015-06-01 balance Liabilities:CreditCard  -634.30 CNY
 
; Automatic insertion of transaction to fulfill the following assertion:
2015-06-01pad Assets:Checking Equity:Opening-Balances

2015-06-01 event "location" "New York, USA"
2015-06-30 event "address" "123 May Street"

option "title" "My Personal Ledger"

pushtag #trip-to-peru
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poptag  #trip-to-peru
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