diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
index 8f79040c4f21..9ed5f23dead0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ in
 
   agda2-mode = callPackage ./manual-packages/agda2-mode { };
 
+  beancount = callPackage ./manual-packages/beancount { };
+
   cask = callPackage ./manual-packages/cask { };
 
   control-lock = callPackage ./manual-packages/control-lock { };
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/beancount/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/beancount/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0e3c66e03242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/beancount/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib
+, melpaBuild
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, emacs
+, writeText
+}:
+
+let
+  rev = "519bfd868f206ed2fc538a57cdb631c4fec3c93e";
+in
+melpaBuild {
+  pname = "beancount";
+  version = "20230205.436";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "beancount";
+    repo = "beancount-mode";
+    inherit rev;
+    hash = "sha256-nTEXJdPEPZpNm06uYvRxLuiOHmsiIgMLerd//dA0+KQ=";
+  };
+
+  commit = rev;
+
+  recipe = writeText "recipe" ''
+    (beancount :repo "beancount/beancount-mode" :fetcher github)
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/beancount/beancount-mode";
+    description = "Emacs major-mode to work with Beancount ledger files";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ polarmutex ];
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    inherit (emacs.meta) platforms;
+  };
+}