Simple double-entry bookkeeping console application written in Prolog. It is currently compatible and tested with the Swi-Prolog. The program helps to prepare montly and annual reports and serves as a financial journal. It does not support asset or inventory management, client handling or invoicing. Only single currency is supported. For multiple currencies, conversion has to be done externally, and the profit or loss from the conversion can then be logged into the separate account.
The application requires Swi-Prolog and Prolog-yamltiny.
To install placcounting, run make install. The installation location depends on the install
prefix of the Swi-Prolog and for the system-wide install it requires the root privileges.
Run placcounting <directory> where the directory contains suitable YAML files. Files
accounts.yml, reports.yml and settings.yml are considered to be special, all other
files ending in *.yml are assumed to contain financial transactions. The file accounts.yml contains
the list of accounts in the following format:
code: 1
name: Cash
type: asset
---
code: 2
name: Bank
type: asset
---
code: 3
name: Sales
type: income
---
code: 4
name: Expenses
type: expense
---
code: 5
name: Accounts payable
type: liability
---
code: 6
name: Owner's equity
type: equity
The code field assigns an unique account identifier to each account. It can be arbitrary (does not have to be a number, could be some kind of a semantic tag). The account type can be one of these: asset, liability, income, expense, equity. The type currently sets on which side of the Accounting equation the account resides. This is needed to calculate account balances.
Files reports.yml and settings.yml are reserved but not used in the current version. All other *.yml files in the directory are assumed to contain transactions in the following format:
date: 2012-01-01
desc: Opening balances
lines:
- debit: 2
credit: 6
sum: 2556.00
---
date: 2012-02-04
desc: VPS hosting invoice #123, January
lines:
- debit: 4
credit: 5
sum: 14.0
---
date: 2012-02-05
desc: Paying VPS hosting invoice #123
lines:
- debit: 5
credit: 2
sum: 14.0
- debit: 4
credit: 2
sum: 0.38
desc: Bank's fee
Dates are in the Date-Only ISO8601 format. Under lines, multiple items might be present. An item can have its own description. No special constructs are used for opening or closing accounts, all of that can be and should be done with normal transactions.
This example is also included in the example folder. Running placcounting /path/to/example
will bring up the Prolog console with the following output:
cleaning database
reading example/accounts.yml
asserting 6 accounts
reading example/all.yml
asserting 3 transactions
total accounts: 6
total transactions: 3
total lines: 4
accounting system started.
Running a query report('2') for the bank account will bring up the following output:
?- report('2').
2012-01-01 2 6 2556.00 Opening balances
2012-02-05 4 2 0.38 Paying VPS hosting invoice (Bank's fee)
2012-02-05 5 2 14.00 Paying VPS hosting invoice
Debit: 2556.00
Credit: 14.38
Balance: 2541.62
Quoted account code '2' has to be used since account codes are not numbers but just Prolog atoms.
For more detailed info, please see thr documentation for the exported predicates in source files src/analysis.pl and src/reporting.pl.
read_all(Directory)
Loads all *.yml files in the directory. Previously loaded data is cleared from the memory. Running the placcounting command will execute this automatically.
report(Account)
Outputs transaction lines for the given account. Reports total credit, total debit and balance.
balance(Account, Balance)
Calculates the balance for the given account.
balance(Account, Month, Balance)
Calculates the balance for the given account for the given month. This only uses transactions done at the given month. It does not accumulate the previous months. Month is specified as an integer. January is 1, February is 2 and so on.
reread
Re-reads currently loaded database files.
When you get the following error:
ERROR: Unknown message: account_does_not_exist(6)
Then you have a transaction that uses an account that is not specified in the accounts.yml file.
- Better and more reporting options.
- Report splitting by debit or credit source - cash flow reports need this.
- Reports should also allow account types not only specific accounts.
- Document how to use it as a Prolog library.
- Unit tests.
Copyright (c) 2013 Raivo Laanemets
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