the-headless-ghost / centjes

Centjes

Plaintext double-entry accounting for the paranoid.

Status: Ready to play around with.

Goals

• Make it easy to file tax declarations.
• Automate as much as possible.
• Make it very hard to make mistakes.

Pipeline

External Providers --[ Import ]-> Raw Data --[ Cleaning and Standardising ]-> Baked data (.cent) --[ Query ]-> Reports

• Raw data is not committed
• Baked data is committed, as declaratively as pragmatic

Assumptions:

• Raw data is going to be in shitty condition. For example:
  1. Not UTF-8
  2. Csv but not separated by commas
  3. Raw PDF files
• Raw data will not be correct. We will need a mechanism to correct it, and not forget about the correction. Banks and Brokers are notoriously terrible at getting currency conversions correct.

FAQ

• Q: Why do I need to declare accounts? A: To help avoid typos

• Q: Why do I need to declare currencies? A: To help avoid typos, and so that centjes can figure out the right precision to use in calculations.