# Treasury Direct t-bills

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**Created:** [March 9, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/treasury-direct-t-bills/83 "2024-03-09T00:59:38Z")\
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Does any one know the best way to record transaction from Treasury Direct (t-bills) in Beancount (or ledger)?

 

You can buy a t-bill at a discount and then at maturity you get the full face value or you can reinvest it.

 

So if you buy $1995 of 30-day t-bills today and in a month they are worth $2000 (as an example). You get $5 sent back to your account and the $1995 rolls into a new t-bill.

 

How can all of this be recorded without it becoming a burden?

 
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