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\f0\fs28 \cf0 While the @command\{balance\} command can be very handy for checking\
account totals, by far the most powerful of Ledger's reporting tools\
is the @command\{register\} command. In fact, internally both commands\
use the same logic, but report the results differently:\
@command\{balance\} shows the summary totals, while @command\{register\}\
reports each posting and how it contributes to that total.\
\
Paradoxically, the most basic form of @command\{register\} is almost\
never used, since it displays every posting:\
\
@example\
ledger reg\
@end example\
\
@command\{reg\} is a short-hand for @command\{register\}. This command\
reports:\
\
@smallexample\
2004/05/01 Checking balance Assets:Bank:Checking $1,000.00 $1,000.00\
Equity:Opening Balan.. $-1,000.00 0\
2004/05/01 Investment balance Assets:Brokerage 50 AAPL 50 AAPL\
Equity:Opening Balan.. $-1,500.00 $-1,500.00\
50 AAPL\
2004/05/14 Pay day Assets:Bank:Checking $500.00 $-1,000.00\
50 AAPL\
Income:Salary $-500.00 $-1,500.00\
50 AAPL\
2004/05/27 Book Store Expenses:Books $20.00 $-1,480.00\
50 AAPL\
Liabilities:MasterCard $-20.00 $-1,500.00\
50 AAPL\
(Liabilities:Taxes) $-2.00 $-1,502.00\
50 AAPL\
2004/05/27 Credit card company Liabilities:MasterCard $20.00 $-1,482.00\
50 AAPL\
Assets:Bank:Checking $-20.00 $-1,502.00\
50 AAPL\
@end smallexample\
\
This rather verbose output shows every account posting in\
@file\{sample.dat\}, and how it affects the running total. The final\
total is identical to what we saw with the plain @command\{balance\}\
command. To see how things really balance, we can use @samp\{--real\
-B\}, just as we did with @command\{balance\}:\
\
@example\
ledger --real -B reg\
@end example\
\
Reports:\
\
@smallexample\
2004/05/01 Checking balance Assets:Bank:Checking $1,000.00 $1,000.00\
Equity:Opening Balan.. $-1,000.00 0\
2004/05/01 Investment balance Assets:Brokerage $1,500.00 $1,500.00\
Equity:Opening Balan.. $-1,500.00 0\
2004/05/14 Pay day Assets:Bank:Checking $500.00 $500.00\
Income:Salary $-500.00 0\
2004/05/27 Book Store Expenses:Books $20.00 $20.00\
Liabilities:MasterCard $-20.00 0\
2004/05/27 Credit card company Liabilities:MasterCard $20.00 $20.00\
Assets:Bank:Checking $-20.00 0\
@end smallexample\
\
Here we see that everything balances to zero in the end, as it must.}
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