[$] Counting corporate beans

Some things simply take time. When your editor restarted the search for a free accounting
system, he had truly hoped to be done by now. But life gets busy, and
accounting systems are remarkably prone to falling off the list of things
one wants to deal with in any given day. On the other hand, accounting can
return to that list quickly whenever LWN's proprietary accounting software
does something particularly obnoxious. This turns out to be one of those
times, so your editor set out to determine whether beancount could do the job.