aregister, areg
Show transactions affecting a particular account, and the account's
running balance.

_FLAGS

aregister shows the transactions affecting a particular account (and its
subaccounts), from the point of view of that account. Each line shows:

-   the transaction's (or posting's, see below) date
-   the names of the other account(s) involved
-   the net change to this account's balance
-   the account's historical running balance (including balance from
    transactions before the report start date).

With aregister, each line represents a whole transaction - as in
hledger-ui, hledger-web, and your bank statement. By contrast, the
register command shows individual postings, across all accounts. You
might prefer aregister for reconciling with real-world asset/liability
accounts, and register for reviewing detailed revenues/expenses.

An account must be specified as the first argument, which should be the
full account name or an account pattern (regular expression). aregister
will show transactions in this account (the first one matched) and any
of its subaccounts.

Any additional arguments form a query which will filter the transactions
shown.

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.

Examples:

Show all transactions and historical running balance in the first
account whose name contains "checking":

$ hledger areg checking

Show transactions and historical running balance in all asset accounts
during july:

$ hledger areg assets date:jul