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

The tutorials herein

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; ##############################  GENERAL/SHARED ACCOUNTS #######################

; Shared Asset Accounts

define assetChecker(amt) = (amt > -10.00 or (tag("TaxImplication") !~ /^\s*$/ and tag("Entity") !~ /^\s*$/))

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;  ############################## COMMODITIES #############################

commodity $

   note USD

   format $1,000.00

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!include config-commodities.ledger

!include config-tags.ledger

!include config-accounts.ledger

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; ################################# TAGS ################################

; The Statement, Receipt, and Invoice tags' values should always a be a

; relative path names.  Note that we "check", but do not "assert" that the

; file name match a standard Unix-like path syntax, without spaces in the

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

This tutorial was written primarily based on

from 2008-10-22 to present for its own accounting needs.  While Conservancy

has done well using this system, and believes that its account system meets

Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this document **does not**

constitute advice from a CPA nor legal advice for a non-profit that seeks to

comply with relevant state and/or federal accounting requirements for USA

non-profits.  The authors make no representations nor warranties regarding

recipients of such distributions will also have both licensing options

described above.

A copy of GPLv3 and CC-By-SA-3.0-USA can be found in the same repository as

this file under the filenames GPLv3.txt and CC-By-SA-3.0-USA.txt.  If this

document has been separated from the repository, a

and a

Some documentation is  already there on internal representation of numbers in ledger. It stores numbers as rational numbers avoid rounding problems arising of floating point representation.

The only time when rounding occurs is while displaying. But there are some other rounding problems in accountancy and it will be good to have a discussion on them.

From the point of view of accountants,

1.  Control over displayed precision