We use Beancount for bookkeeping and light accounting. This repository holds various tools to help with that.
Set the OTS_BOOKKEEPING_DIR environment variable to the absolute path of
the directory containing this code. Our convention is that programs
using this code will locate it by examining that environment variable.
A script that runs OTS-specific checks on a Beancount file (for example, checking that the entries are in chronological order).
share_postings.py is a beancount plugin that enables you to
automatically split a posting among multiple parties.
threadfin is a set of tools that make beancount easier. It consists
of several subtools, all of which can be accessed via threadfin TOOLNAME. See threadfin/README.mdwn for more information.
fill-1099 is a script for arranging payment information properly on
a standard U.S. 1099-MISC PDF form. The script knows the layout: you
pass in the payee and payment data and it takes care of the rest.
ots-generate-1099 is an OTS-specific driver for fill-1099.
Usually you would expect to be running ots-generate-1099, rather
than running fill-1099 directly.