Initial documentation of the Program: tag.
Includes introduction of the section about making use of these tags.
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			@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ account Accrued:Accounts Receivable:Main Org
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;       to the assert in ever Expense account because of the following bug:
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;               http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=953
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define expenseChecker() = (tag("Receipt") !~ /^\s*$/ or tag("Invoice") !~ /^\s*$/ or tag("Statement") !~ /^\s*$/)
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define expenseChecker() = (tag("Receipt") !~ /^\s*$/ or tag("Invoice") !~ /^\s*$/ or tag("Statement") !~ /^\s*$/) and tag("Program") !~ /^\s*$/
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; or payee =~ /NEVER CHARGED/
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account Expense:Main Org:Office Supplies
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tag IncomeType
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    assert value =~ /^(Donations|RBI|UBTI)$/
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; Program tag must match the general format of a ledger account as an
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; assertion, but we at least check known names of programs, so that warnings
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; are produced if a new program never seen before is encountered.
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tag Program
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    assert value =~ /[ A-z0-9\-]+(:[ A-z0-9\-]+)*/
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    check  value =~ /^(Main Org:(Overhead|Direct Fundraising))$/
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2012-02-05 Office Supply Galore - Online Order
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        ;Receipt: accounts/documentation/org/receipts/2012-02-05_office-supply-galore.txt
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    Expense:Main Org:Office Supplies          $35.00
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        ;Program: Main Org:Overhead
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    Liabilities:Credit Card:Visa             -$35.00
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2011/05/28 My Bad Billing Hosting - NEVER CHARGED
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    Liabilities:Credit Card:Visa            $-100.00
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    Expense:Main Org:Hosting                 $100.00
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        ;Program: Main Org:Overhead
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2012/01/01 My Bad Billing Hosting - REVERSAL - NEVER CHARGED
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    Liabilities:Credit Card:Visa             $100.00
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    Expense:Main Org:Hosting                $-100.00
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        ;Program: Main Org:Overhead
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2012-05-03 Sir Moneybags
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        ;Entity: Sir-Moneybags
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    Accrued:Accounts Receivable:Main Org  $100,000.00
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    Income:Main Org:Donations            $-100,000.00
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        ;IncomeType: Donations
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        ;Program: Main Org:Direct Fundraising
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			@ -261,6 +261,18 @@ relatively simple change to `config-tags.ledger`, though, to support other
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income types, or to change it entirely to handle use-cases other than USA
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Form 990 filing.
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#### Program Tag
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The `Program` tag is used primarily to track program activity for `Income:`
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and `Expense:` accounts.  This allows for knowing what particular initiative
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initiated the income (e.g., a specific fundraising campaign) and/or what
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particular program activity an expense is toward (e.g., funding travel to
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some specific conference).
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The Program tag is always a string with the same format as a Ledger CLI
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account (primarily for use with Ledger CLI's `--pivot` and `--group-by`,
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[as described later](#testing-program-success).
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### Expense Account Documentation
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Each Expense account entries need to be tagged with an
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			@ -312,6 +324,26 @@ However, going forward, you'd likely never enter anything the ledger
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the Expense did/should occur.  This use of `NEVER CHARGED` in the payee is
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thus deprecated.
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Analysis of the Data
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If this methodology is followed, Ledger can be used to analyze the financial
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data for the organization.
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### Testing Program Success
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If you use the [`Program`](#program-tag) tag effectively, you can easily test
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the successes of various fundraising programs with a command like this:
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    $ ledger -f accounts/books.ledger --pivot Program bal '/^Income/'
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Meanwhile, using the  [`Program`](#program-tag) tag for Expenses can help
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track what programs are costing with commands like hese:
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    $ ledger -f accounts/books.ledger --group-by 'tag("Program")' reg '/^Expense/'
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FIXME: example output
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Copyright and License of This File
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