If your ledger file uses the standard top-level accounts: Assets,
Liabilities, Income, Expenses, Equity: then the following queries will
enable you to generate some typical accounting reports from your data.

Your @emph{net worth} can be determined by balancing assets against
liabilities:

@example
ledger bal ^assets ^liab
@end example

By removing long-term investment and loan accounts, you can see your
current net liquidity (or liquid net worth):

@example
ledger bal ^assets ^liab -retirement -brokerage -loan
@end example

Balancing expenses against income yields your @emph{cash flow}, or net
profit/loss:

@example
ledger bal ^exp ^inc
@end example

In this case, if the number is positive it means you spent more than
you earned during the report period.

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The most often used command is the ``balance'' command:

@example
export LEDGER=/home/johnw/doc/ledger.dat
ledger balance
@end example

Here I've set my Ledger environment variable to point to where my
ledger file is hiding.  Thereafter, I needn't specify it again.