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Ledger has seven basic commands, but by far the most often used are @command{balance} and @command{register}. To see a summary balance of all accounts, use:

@example ledger bal @end example

@command{bal} is a short-hand for @command{balance}. This command prints out the summary totals of the five parent accounts used in @file{sample.dat}:

@smallexample $1,480.00 50 AAPL Assets $-2,500.00 Equity $20.00 Expenses $-500.00 Income $-2.00 Liabilities -------------------- $-1,502.00 50 AAPL @end smallexample

None of the child accounts are shown, just the parent account totals. We can see that in @samp{Assets} there is $1,480.00, and 50 shares of Apple stock. There is also a negative grand total. Usually the grand total is zero, which means that all accounts balance@footnote{It is impossible for accounts not to balance in ledger; it reports an error if a posting does not balance}. In this case, since the 50 shares of Apple stock cost $1,500.00 dollars, then these two amounts balance each other in the grand total. The extra $2.00 comes from a virtual posting being added by the automatic transaction at the top of the file. The transaction is virtual because the account name was surrounded by parentheses in an automatic transaction. Automatic transactions will be discussed later, but first let's remove the virtual posting from the balance report by using the @option{--real} option:

@example ledger --real bal @end example

Now the report is:

@smallexample $1,480.00 50 AAPL Assets $-2,500.00 Equity $20.00 Expenses $-500.00 Income -------------------- $-1,500.00 50 AAPL @end smallexample

Since the liability was a virtual posting, it has dropped from the report and we see that final total is balanced.

But we only know that it balances because @file{sample.dat} is quite simple, and we happen to know that the 50 shares of Apple stock cost $1,500.00. We can verify that things really balance by reporting the Apple shares in terms of their cost, instead of their quantity. To do this requires the @option{--basis}, or @option{-B}, option:

@example ledger --real -B bal @end example

This command reports:

@smallexample $2,980.00 Assets $-2,500.00 Equity $20.00 Expenses $-500.00 Income @end smallexample

With the basis cost option, the grand total has disappeared, as it is now zero. The confirms that the cost of everything balances to zero, @emph{which must always be true}. Reporting the real basis cost should never yield a remainder@footnote{If it ever does, then generated postings are involved, which can be removed using @option{--actual}}.
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