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+			<string>The most important part of accounting is keeping a good ledger.  If
+you have a good ledger, tools can be written to work whatever
+mathematically tricks you need to better understand your spending
+patterns.  Without a good ledger, no tool, however smart, can help
+you.
+
+The Ledger program aims at making ledger transaction as simple as possible.
+Since it is a command-line tool, it does not provide a user interface
+for keeping a ledger.  If you like, you may use GnuCash to maintain
+your ledger, in which case the Ledger program will read GnuCash's data
+files directly.  In that case, read the GnuCash manual now, and skip
+to the next chapter.
+
+If you are not using GnuCash, but a text editor to maintain your
+ledger, read on.  Ledger has been designed to make data transaction as
+simple as possible, by keeping the ledger format easy, and also by
+automagically determining as much information as possible based on the
+nature of your transactions.
+
+For example, you do not need to tell Ledger about the accounts you
+use.  Any time Ledger sees a posting involving an account it knows
+nothing about, it will create it.  If you use a commodity that is new
+to Ledger, it will create that commodity, and determine its display
+characteristics (placement of the symbol before or after the amount,
+display precision, etc) based on how you used the commodity in the
+posting.
+
+Here is the Pacific Bell example from above, given as a Ledger
+posting:
+
+@smallexample
+9/29 (100) Pacific Bell
+    Expenses:Utilities:Phone                   $23.00
+    Assets:Checking                           $-23.00
+@end smallexample
+
+As you can see, it is very similar to what would be written on paper,
+minus the computed balance totals, and adding in account names that
+work better with Ledger's scheme of things.  In fact, since Ledger is
+smart about many things, you don't need to specify the balanced
+amount, if it is the same as the first line:
+
+@smallexample
+9/29 (100) Pacific Bell
+    Expenses:Utilities:Phone                   $23.00
+    Assets:Checking
+@end smallexample
+
+For this transaction, Ledger will figure out that $-23.00 must come from
+@samp{Assets:Checking} in order to balance the transaction.</string>
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