Re: Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet

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El 2022-01-09 22:42, Samuel Banya escribió:
> Ah, Ledger is way too complicated for what it's worth. I've seen
> videos on YouTube about it, and every person who's praised it is
> pretty much too smart enough to be able to explain it in simple terms.

It is very easy.  I made a video for EmacsConf 2019
https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/12/ .   I wish someone had showed me
examples like these when I started with it.  

My fiancee is a preschool teacher (programming is not her area of
expertize).  But she quickly learned how to use it.  She keeps about
3700 per year with 4500 lines.  It takes her about 10 minutes per day. 
With that investment, she can even tell how much we have spent on apples
or on all fruits (as detailed or general as she wants).  On these two
years, she has saved us about half our budget and has us living much
better thanks to the knowledge of what we want to invest on.  (We now do
not think of how to spend money, but how to invest it.  That changes the
point view completely.)
  
There are complicated reports as well as very simple ones that can be
generated.  And you can always customize them to the last bit.  There is
also a website http://plaintextaccounting.org .  There is plenty of
information there.  You can also use org-babel to include formulas for
Ledger reports.

Just ask away!  :-)