Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reporting

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a collection of spreadsheets to a plain text accounting ledger and wrote programs to automate balance, income, and sales reporting using a tool called Beancount. These recipes may be useful to others running businesses, particularly if they have some programming talent. Plain Text Accounting Plain Text Accounting is an approach to accounting that has helped us minimize costs, maxim...