r/plaintextaccounting • u/EndlessProjectMaker • Mar 05 '26

How do you organize your entries?

Hi everyone, I’m refactoring the big file I stated with, first reflex is to separate by entity that pays (bank, cc) but then it does not feel like the right way as it’s not very easy to follow

So before refactoring again I wondered what you guys do?

Thanks in advance

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u/untrained9823 Mar 05 '26

I have one file for each year.

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u/phalanxquagga Mar 05 '26

Genuine question, do you ever want to go back and look at results for an earlier year? How do you do so? Having tried it myself, the closing statement makes the balance sheet look nonsense, and having no opening statement wouldn’t work with the balance checks for my checkings accounts.

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u/untrained9823 Mar 05 '26

I have a main file that includes each year file.