LedgerLoom intro

LedgerLoom is a small open-source project intended to help learners understand:

• where accounting came from (paper journals and ledgers),

• why double-entry uses debits/credits,

• how those ideas map naturally to modern software (event logs + read models),

• how financial statements can be derived reproducibly from the underlying events.

What you can do today

• Generate a tiny demo ledger and statements:

  make ll-ch01
  

• Build the docs locally:

  make docs
  ledgerloom-docs
  

Project philosophy

LedgerLoom aims to be:

• Educational: explain the “why,” not just the “how.”

• Deterministic: scripts produce the same outputs given the same inputs.

• Tested: automated checks so results are trustworthy.