tldr/pages/common/hledger-accounts.md

# hledger accounts

> List account names.
> More information: <https://hledger.org/hledger.html#accounts>.

- Show all accounts used or declared in the default journal file:

`hledger accounts`

- Show accounts used by transactions:

`hledger accounts --used`

- Show accounts declared with account directives:

`hledger accounts --declared`

- Add new account directives, for accounts used but not declared, to the journal:

`hledger accounts --undeclared --directives >> {{2024-accounts.journal}}`

- Show accounts with `asset` in their name, and their declared/inferred types:

`hledger accounts asset --types`

- Show accounts of the `Asset` type:

`hledger accounts type:A`

- Show the first two levels of the accounts hierarchy:

`hledger accounts --tree --depth 2`

- Short form of the above:

`hledger acc -t -2`