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Tracking Personal Finances Using Python
Learn How to Build a Developer-Friendly Workflow to Keep Track of Your Money
The Pragmatic Bookshelf is proud to be distributing a book by Siddhant Goel on using Python to track your personal finances:
The Python ecosystem offers a package called Beancount that provides data structures and command line utilities for working with money. This book will show you how to use Beancount to maintain double-entry accounting records of all your financial transactions in a plain text file, and use the CLI/web tools Beancount provides to work with this ledger.
Using this book, you can build you’ll build a personalized multibanking application powered entirely by Python. You’ll use Beancount to maintain double-entry accounting records of all your financial transactions in a plain-text file, and use the CLI/web tools Beancount provides to work with this ledger. The final result will be a Git repository on your computer where you can view and edit everything related to your money.
💥 This book is intended only as an informative guide for people who would like to learn more about Python programming and personal financial transactions. In no way is this book intended to replace, countermand, or conflict with best bookkeeping practices, accounting standards, or financial regulations your region or anywhere else.
This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.
