Plain-text accounting insights, tutorials, and updates from the Beancount.io team.
A ledger-based method for ARC-accredited travel agencies to separate ticket proceeds, airline settlement obligations, service-fee revenue, and refunds—so daily, per-period, and monthly reconciliation shows exactly how much cash the agency actually owns.
Tesla's Q2 2026 revenue rose 25.5% to $28.24 billion on 480,450 deliveries and a record 13.5 GWh of energy storage, yet operating income fell 57% to $398 million as R&D rose 49%, SG&A rose 45%, and regulatory-credit revenue dropped 67% to $146 million. A $1.0 billion unrealized gain on Tesla's SpaceX stake then lifted net income to $1.13 billion, nearly triple the operating result. Full income statement, balance sheet and FY2021-Q2 2026 history in a public Beancount ledger.
A bookkeeping playbook for shared commissary kitchen operators—separate every revenue stream, price storage and peak hours, allocate shared costs by a rule you can explain, reconcile bookings to bank deposits, and hold refundable deposits as liabilities until earned.
A practical guide for Saudi SMEs under ZATCA's FATOORA e-invoicing mandate—how B2B clearance and B2C reporting differ, why master data is a compliance control, and how to reconcile your accounting ledger with what your e-invoicing system submits.
QR-code phishing (quishing) can redirect a vendor payment or capture a customer's card by swapping one image. The defenses are ordinary bookkeeping controls—verify the vendor master, separate approval from payment release, and reconcile QR channels daily.
A practical control framework for small-team purchasing cards—role-based limits, same-day receipt capture, weekly reconciliation, and independent review—so fast spending stays documented and auditable.
How to keep books for Notion-template sales when a merchant-of-record platform collects sales tax and nets fees from your payout—separating customer charges, platform fees, refunds, and taxes through a clearing account so a $1,530 deposit is fully explained, and treating Form 1099-K as a cross-check rather than your ledger.
Niger's 2026 framework adds a 1% tax on qualifying cash payments above CFA 100,000 and a 0.5%/5% tax on deposits and inter-operator transfers. This guide shows small businesses how to map exposure, record the tax separately from the underlying transaction, and reconcile cash and mobile money daily.
A bookkeeping framework for mobile veterinary practices — track per-visit revenue in layers, capitalize the van and conversion, split loan payments into principal and interest, and use contribution margin plus a rolling 13-week forecast to price each route.
Minnesota's licensed veterinary technician transition took effect July 1, 2026, with USD 282 in initial Board fees per applicant. A practical checklist for clinics to budget the costs, set reimbursement rules, control a staff roster, and clean up client-facing job titles.
A midyear withholding checkup turns "Will I owe?" into numbers you can act on—check your 2026 estimated-tax safe harbors (90% of this year's tax, or 100%/110% of last year's), project your withholding, and close any gap with a new Form W-4 or estimated payments.
In a mailbox store or CMRA, record prepaid mailbox rent as deferred revenue and customer postage as a liability until it is spent, reconcile the customer-balance subledger to the general ledger monthly, and set retention rules from USPS and IRS requirements.
