buchhaltung

I've been looking at the various open source accounting options recently and I settled on Beancount: http://furius.ca/beancount/ ~95% of the reason is the fantastic web interface Fava: https://beancount.github.io/fava/ It's a bit annoying that you have to configure it with Python code but once you set it up it's pleasant to use. The pain point for me right now is figuring out the counterparty for transactions (e.g. I can see that money went out of my bank account to pay the grocery store but I need to map that to the "Expenses:Groceries" category). It seems I need to use some kind of smart importer or something. One application I thought got that part quite right was Buchhaltung (which works with Ledger/hledger rather than Beancount): https://github.com/johannesgerer/buchhaltung. It's matching system made that dead easy. Buchhaltung also

Does anyone have any advice on how to be successful with ledger? I've tried a few things. I entered a lot of things, but the issues I have are more structural nature and probably general lack of accounting experience: What types do you use is there a useful list, that I can then translate to SMB or Personal tax filing? A somewhat standardized structure of assets, liabilities, accounts payable, accounts receivable etc. How do you deal with Cash? (EDIT: most answers assume that you only spend little cash, but in some countries cash can account for a decent amount of your income) How do you deal with interest? How do you keep your bank statements? I've tried using https://github.com/johannesgerer/buchhaltung which supports paypal ofx and hbci How do you convert your balance sheet into a tax filing compatible format? How do you track things l