On 12/10/14 5:05 AM, Chris Bennett wrote:
Does anyone use ledger for project accounting or time tracking,
budgeting & billing in a consulting context?
Can anyone offer examples or tips on how to best manage these with
ledger?
I'm currently doing all my business & personal accounting in a set of
ledger files, and use a seperate ledger file for time accounting using
the timelog format.
I've started dealing with multiple projects for 1 or more clients
simultaneously, along with pre-paid blocks of time & unbilled accrued
time, & I'm trying to maintain visibility for budgeting, reporting &
preventing overruns.
Hi Chris, I do.
I started doing out with the timelog format, first with Ledger and later
hledger (2007-2009). Like you, a separate file just for time tracking.
For my needs this format is over-precise and too hard to retroactively
update (eg from memory or notes). So I switched to the regular journal
format for a while (2009-2010).
I switched to a phone app (Eternity) for a few years. Ultimately this
had the same problem as above.
This year I've switched back to hledger. To minimise data entry effort,
for a while I tried logging time in a csv file (date, description,
hours), using hledger csv rules to assign accounts based on the description.
Currently I'm using regular journal format again, so that I can enter
data with hledger add. Using standardised transaction descriptions, it
mostly suggests the right defaults and I can just hit enter enter enter.
On osx I use option-space to pop up a terminal dedicated to this purpose
(hledger add's autocompletion requires a real terminal).
My top-level accounts are currently:
$ hours acc depth:1
admin
business
earning
foss
home
service
with one, sometimes two levels of subaccount below these. Eg:
admin
email
mail
numbers
phone
planning/org
business
bizdev
research
sysadmin
earning
client1
client2
foss
hledger
ledger
darcs
...
I have "alias hours='hledger -f ~/finance/time.journal'" in bashrc. A
typical report command would be:
$ hours bal -W date:thismonth- depth:1
Balance changes in 2014/12/01-2014/12/14:
|| 2014/12/01w49 2014/12/08w50
==========++===============================
admin || 14.50 1.75
business || 4.50 0
earning || 0.25 0
foss || 19.25 0.25
service || 2.50 0.25
----------++-------------------------------
|| 41.00 2.25
I'm experimenting with envelope accounts for budgetting money. I imagine
you could do that for time, too.
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