Nice work. I’m a coder who started my career as an accountant.<p>Over the years I’ve seen many dev projects get stuck on modelling the double entry system. Would be great to have this as a jump off point for many future finance projects.<p>Wish you all the best with it.<p>Is it possible to put the database in a state where debits and credits do not equal. What approaches did you use towards always keeping these equal?
Have you seen the other double entry book keeping projects that revolve around plain text accounting? <a href="https://plaintextaccounting.org/" rel="nofollow">https://plaintextaccounting.org/</a><p>What would the benefits of your solution be over something like beancount?
Hey hackernews!<p>Ive been building this Covid project for the last 18 months which is an accounting server that manages double entry bookkeeping transactions and formats them nicely in either SQLite or MySQL.<p>Its mostly command line driven right now but also working on a GUI frontend here:<p><a href="https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger-web" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger-web</a><p>The goal was to make a server that could run perpetually and when i wanted to record my accounts i could do so via a script. Also wanted to analyse the financials via the database directly and i found that current accounting software didnt really let you do those simple things.