The Domestic-Engineering accounting app

Accounting · October 26, 2020

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Introduction

This web app implements the double-entry accounting scheme described in this section of the blog. It is also available as a git repo implemented in Python. I have done my personal accounting in Python using this method since 2013. The code has been through several iterations in that time. For a detailed tutorial, see the link below:

October 26, 2020 · Accounting

[Tutorial] The Domestic-Engineering accounting app

Source files and parameters

Run report on code

Filtered output? Show empty?

Start date (as yyyy-mm-dd)

End date (as yyyy-mm-dd)

Contains

Does not contain

Report

Highlight graph region to zoom in on date range, double-click to restore original zoom.

Click on bars to expand child accounts; click on x-axis labels to collapse child accounts. Click and drag on y-axis to zoom in; double-click y-axis to restore original zoom. If a bar is not fully displayed due to zooming, it will appear with a crosshatched pattern. Accounts with a value of $0 are not shown.