Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text Accounting

Re:Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text... by jdemler on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:00PM (#15819488)

At CurrySoftware GmbH we use ledger + recutils + aqbanking + custom bash scripts to automate many business processes.

Some of these processes are required by german law and many companys outsource these to accountants or tax advisors or buy shitty software from DATEV.

The great advantage in staying fully plaintext is, that you do not need to automate everything for the whole system to work. Incoming invoices are frequent -> write a bash script, Outgoing invoices are frequent -> write a bash script. Paying the state back some VAT happens once a month, use emacs to do it manually. I really love it.

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Re:Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text... by levosmetalo on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:24PM (#15819673)

It would be interesting if you could share your workflow/scripts.

Especially how did you implement SKR03 (guess you use that) into your hledger account hierarchy, and how do you generate e.g monthly VAT reports, or yearly VAT and trade tax reports.

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Re:Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text... by jdemler on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:37PM (#15819782)

The system is not yet ready to be published but drop me a mail and I will send you some bash scripts and will try to answer questions.

We use a custom "Kontenrahmen" based on the same ideas as SKR03, as using numbers is not necessary with ledger. That also means we can only communicate with tax advisors through paper. But as we communicate with the Finanzamt directly, thats ok.

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