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At Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:43:25 -0500,
Russell Adams wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:13:56PM -0400, Raffi R wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone has any experience using orgmode for
> > budgeting and (more particularly) keeping track of daily and
> > day-to-day expenses, and would be interested in describing their
> > workflow.

> 
> I use John Wiegley's Ledger:
> 
> http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger
> 
> Good luck!
> 

As do I and highly recommended indeed!

It would be interesting to see a org-babel interface to ledger...
what ledger is missing, in the context of emacs, is an easy way to see
the actual output of the ledger command (e.g. bal or reg) while
looking at the ledger file.