Plain Text Accounting and Financial Reporting
11 hours ago
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- Automated accounting and financial reporting using Plain Text Accounting for a small publishing company.
- Switched from spreadsheets to a Beancount-based plain text ledger to improve accuracy and reduce manual work.
- Uses Python and Jinja2 templates to generate monthly balance sheets, income statements, and product sales reports.
- Ledger includes accounts for Assets, Liabilities, Income, Expenses, and Equity, with automated validation.
- Transactions follow double-entry accounting, ensuring correctness and transparency for royalty tracking.
- Reporting system integrates with Git for version control and automatically publishes updates via GitLab Pages.
- Examples provided for sales transactions, royalty payments, and generating financial statements.
- Beancount's bean-check tool verifies account balancing; custom scripts convert CSV exports to ledger format.