Reckon

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Reckon automagically converts CSV files for use with the command-line accounting tool Ledger. It also helps you to select the correct accounts associated with the CSV data using Bayesian machine learning.

Installation

Assuming you have Ruby and Rubygems installed on your system, simply run

(sudo) gem install reckon

Example Usage

First, login to your bank and export your transaction data as a CSV file.

To see how the CSV parses:

reckon -f bank.csv -p

If your CSV file has a header on the first line, include --contains-header.

To convert to ledger format and label everything, do:

reckon -f bank.csv -o output.dat

To have reckon learn from an existing ledger file, provide it with -l:

reckon -f bank.csv -l 2010.dat -o output.dat

Learn more:

> reckon -h

Usage: Reckon.rb [options]

-f, --file FILE                  The CSV file to parse
-a, --account name               The Ledger Account this file is for
-v, --[no-]verbose               Run verbosely
-i, --inverse                    Use the negative of each amount
-p, --print-table                Print out the parsed CSV in table form
-o, --output-file FILE           The ledger file to append to
-l, --learn-from FILE            An existing ledger file to learn accounts from
    --ignore-columns 1,2,5
                                 Columns to ignore in the CSV file - the first column is column 1
    --contains-header
                                 The first row of the CSV is a header and should be skipped
    --csv-separator ','
                                 Separator for parsing the CSV - default is comma.
    --comma-separates-cents
                                 Use comma instead of period to deliminate dollars from cents when parsing ($100,50 instead of $100.50)
    --encoding
                                 Specify an encoding for the CSV file
-c, --currency '$'               Currency symbol to use, defaults to $ (£, EUR)
    --date-format '%d/%m/%Y'
                                 Force the date format (see Ruby DateTime strftime)
    --suffixed
                                 If --currency should be used as a suffix. Defaults to false.
-h, --help                       Show this message
    --version                    Show version

If you find CSV files that it can't parse, send me examples or pull requests!

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.
  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2013 Andrew Cantino. See LICENSE for details.

Thanks to @BlackEdder for many contributions!

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