Keep record of expenses and view the expenses for given period. Add an expense entry conveniently using the interactive command expenses-add-expense A list of desired categories could be set using setq expenses-category-list '(category1 category2 ..) Set the desired destination for the expense files using setq expenses-directory "desired/destination" View the org file using expenses-view-expense Expenses for a given period like a date, month, months or year could be calculated using appropriate interactive functions. See the README on the github