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Note that Expense account entries need to be tagged with an Invoice, Receipt, or Statement tag (those tag declarations will be added in next commit). payee with "NEVER CHARGED" ========================== The only exception is when the payee has been modified to indicate that the expense was "NEVER CHARGED". This was a special-case we encountered where we were expecting something, they never invoiced us, and it turns out the thing to be invoiced for never happened. Typically, we'd just remove the entry from the Ledger file, and allow the VCS to log the fact that we thought we'd be charged and weren't. However, in this case, the expense had been post-audit and therefore was a permanent fixture on our books. Changing the payee allowed it to pass checks. However, going forward, we'd likely never enter anything the ledger UNTIL we had real proof via an Invoice, Receipt or Statement that showed the Expense did/should occur. |
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Using Ledger CLI for Non-Profit Organizational Accounting
Non-profit organizations (NPOs), particularly 501(c)(3) charities in the USA, have their own specific accounting needs. These often differ from for-profit accounting needs. For example, for-profit-oriented systems often make problematic assumptions about the workflow of accounting tasks (often because NPOs rely primarily on donations, rather than fee-for-service or widget-selling income). Also, non-profit income is categorized differently than for-profit income, and the reporting requirements vary wildly from their for-profit equivalents.
This project is designed to provide some basic templates, tutorials, workflow documentation and scripts to handle accounting for an NPO. The primary example is a direct project (aka Model A) fiscal sponsor NPO.
The tutorials herein
Copyright and License of this project
The intention is that the examples and templates be of maximum use to everyone in all possible contexts. As such, no copyleft is applied, and the examples and templates will be licensed under CC-0v1.0. The documentation itself (such as the READMEs and tutorials) are dual-licensed (GPLv3-or-later|CC-By-SA-3.0) for maximum use as redistributable documentation, or for use in GPLv3-or-later and/or AGPLv3-or-later projects.
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This specific document, the README.md file for npo-ledger-cli, is copyrighted: Copyright © 2013, Bradley M. Kuhn
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