LedgerLoom

Start here

  • LedgerLoom intro
  • LedgerLoom vision and roadmap
  • Changelog

Engine (the reusable core)

  • LedgerLoom Engine Overview
  • Engine Design Principles
  • Engine API Reference

Chapters (runnable demos)

  • Chapter 01 — Journal vs Event Log
  • Chapter 02 — Debits & Credits as Encodings (Wide, Long, Signed)
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 03 — Posting to the Ledger
  • Chapter 03: Chart of Accounts as Schema
  • Chapter 04: General Ledger as a database
  • Chapter 05 — Accounting equation as an invariant
  • Chapter 06: Periods, accrual, and timing
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 07 — Adjusting entries as “late-arriving data”
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 08 — Closing as a controlled transformation
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 08.5 — Opening the Next Period
  • LedgerLoom — Chapter 09: Accounts Receivable lifecycle (control + subledger)
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 10 — Accounts Payable Lifecycle
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 11 — Inventory and COGS
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 12 — Fixed assets and depreciation
  • LedgerLoom Chapter 13 — Payroll as a multi-line event

Future chapters (stubs)

  • Chapter 13: Payroll as a multi-line event
  • Chapter 14: Reconciliations as quality control
  • Chapter 15: Materiality & inconsequential misstatements
  • Chapter 16: Audit trail, provenance, explainability
  • Chapter 17: Statement analysis with summary statistics
  • Chapter 18: Forecasting + planning basics

Workbook (Hybrid method)

  • Financial Accounting — The Hybrid Method with LedgerLoom

Appendices

  • Appendix: Glossary
  • Appendix: FAQ
  • Appendix — FAQ
  • Appendix: Cookbook
  • Appendix: Implementation notes
  • Appendix: Data model reference
  • Practical tooling
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