aregister, areg

Show the transactions and running historical balance of a single
account, with each transaction displayed as one line.

_FLAGS

aregister shows the overall transactions affecting a particular account
(and any subaccounts). Each report line represents one transaction in
this account. Transactions before the report start date are always
included in the running balance (--historical mode is always on).

This is a more "real world", bank-like view than the register command
(which shows individual postings, possibly from multiple accounts, not
necessarily in historical mode). As a quick rule of thumb: - use
aregister for reviewing and reconciling real-world asset/liability
accounts - use register for reviewing detailed revenues/expenses.

aregister requires one argument: the account to report on. You can write
either the full account name, or a case-insensitive regular expression
which will select the alphabetically first matched account. (Eg if you
have assets:aaa:checking and assets:bbb:checking accounts,
hledger areg checking would select assets:aaa:checking.)

Transactions involving subaccounts of this account will also be shown.
aregister ignores depth limits, so its final total will always match a
balance report with similar arguments.

Any additional arguments form a query which will filter the transactions
shown. Note some queries will disturb the running balance, causing it to
be different from the account's real-world running balance.

An example: this shows the transactions and historical running balance
during july, in the first account whose name contains "checking":

$ hledger areg checking date:jul

Each aregister line item shows:

-   the transaction's date (or the relevant posting's date if different,
    see below)
-   the names of all the other account(s) involved in this transaction
    (probably abbreviated)
-   the total change to this account's balance from this transaction
-   the account's historical running balance after this transaction.

Transactions making a net change of zero are not shown by default; add
the -E/--empty flag to show them.

This command also supports the output destination and output format
options. The output formats supported are txt, csv, and json.

aregister and custom posting dates

Transactions whose date is outside the report period can still be shown,
if they have a posting to this account dated inside the report period.
(And in this case it's the posting date that is shown.) This ensures
that aregister can show an accurate historical running balance, matching
the one shown by register -H with the same arguments.

To filter strictly by transaction date instead, add the --txn-dates
flag. If you use this flag and some of your postings have custom dates,
it's probably best to assume the running balance is wrong.