More transactions

Here's a journal with a few more transactions. You could practice using hledger add to add similar transactions to your journal. Or: open the file in a text editor and copy/paste these entries.

2025-01-01 starting balances
    assets:cash               100 USD
    assets:bank:checking     1000 USD
    liabilities:credit card  -400 USD
    equity:start

2025-01-01 pay rent
    assets:bank:checking
    expenses:rent             800 USD

2025-01-02 salary
    revenues:salary
    assets:bank:checking     1000 USD

2025-01-03 pay half of credit card balance
    assets:bank:checking
    liabilities:credit card   200 USD

2025-01-04 shopping
    assets:bank:checking
    expenses:food             200 USD
    expenses:supplies          50 USD

A few differences from the previous example:

  • The starting balances transaction now sets balances for three accounts, not just one.
  • One of them is a liability, a credit card with a balance owed; so this one is negative.
  • Currency symbols are using a different style: a three-letter currency code, on the right side.
  • These entries leave one of the amounts blank; those will be calculated automatically. (Eg for equity:start it is -700 USD.)

These entries represent the following money flows:
1. equity -> assets, liabilitiesset starting balances
2. checking -> rentpay rent from checking account
3. revenues -> checkingreceive salary to checking account
4. checking -> credit cardpay part of credit card balance from checking account
5. checking -> food, suppliesa mixed purchase from checking account

(Part of hledger by example.)