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Apple's fiscal Q3 2026 (June quarter) delivered $109.4B revenue (+16% YoY), $2.02 diluted EPS (+29%), and a 50.1% gross margin — roughly 2 points of it a one-time tariff refund worth $0.11 of EPS. iPhone, Mac and Services each set June quarter records, every geography grew double digits, and the full FY2021–FY2026Q3 income statements and balance sheets sit in a public Beancount ledger.
Palantir's FY2026 Q2 revenue surged 93% to $1.935 billion as U.S. commercial revenue jumped 149% to $764 million, lifting GAAP operating margin to 47% and forcing full-year guidance to $8.15 billion (+82% YoY) — the second straight quarter of accelerating hypergrowth at software's most debated valuation.
Beancount.io 3.6 closes the gap between financial activity and a reliable ledger with smarter imports, reviewable AI actions, and a rebuilt mobile app.
Bitwave open-sourced an agent-native accounting CLI and MCP server on July 23, 2026, arguing AI agents need command-line, diffable interfaces rather than GUI dashboards — the same properties git-tracked plain-text accounting has offered since before "agentic finance" was a marketing term.
A software engineer walks through her real Beancount routine: receipt capture at the grocery store, a 20-minute Sunday check-in in Fava, balance assertions that work like unit tests, and eight years of family finances version-controlled in Git.
Amazon's Q2 2026: $200.6B net sales (+19.6%) and $62.6B net income (+245%) — but $53.4B of that was a non-operating gain from revaluing its Anthropic stake. Operating income rose 43% to $27.5B as AWS accelerated to 37% growth at a 39.4% margin, while trailing free cash flow turned to a $7.6B outflow on $169B of capex. Modeled line by line in a public Beancount ledger.
Meta Platforms' Q2 2026 revenue grew 28% to $60.8 billion but net income fell 14% to $15.8 billion — the first year-over-year profit decline of its AI-capex era — as total costs rose 55%, operating margin dropped from 43% to 31%, and capital expenditures nearly doubled to $31.1 billion.
Microsoft's FY2026: $331.8B revenue (+18%), a record $133.7B net income, Azure past $100B, and $115.9B of AI capex — nearly 35% of revenue — broken down as an auditable plain-text Beancount ledger.
Robinhood's Q2 2026 revenue rose 32% to a record $1.31 billion and net income jumped 48% to $573 million, but the quarter's defining events were its first-ever debt raise — $2.2 billion of convertible notes — and a one-time $135 million gain that supplied roughly $0.14 of the $0.62 diluted EPS.
Alphabet's Q2 2026 revenue was $119.8B (+24% YoY) and net income hit $112.2B (+298%), but roughly $99.0B of that was a non-cash gain on equity securities that the cash flow statement backs right out, leaving operating cash flow at just $39.1B. Google Cloud grew 82% to a ~$99B run-rate at a 35.6% operating margin, while Alphabet halted stock buybacks and raised ~$70B via common stock, its first-ever preferred, and debt to fund a $44.9B capex quarter that turned free cash flow negative. The FY2022–Q2 2026 Beancount ledger shows long-term debt climbing from $10.9B to $98.2B.
How portable restroom rental companies should account for one fleet serving two revenue models — monthly construction contracts ($100–$300/unit) recognized ratably under ASC 606 versus lump-sum event rentals with deferred deposits — plus 2026 Section 179 expensing up to $2,560,000, 100% bonus depreciation, per-stop route costing, and seasonal cash flow budgeting.
Alphabet's Q1 2026 revenue was $109.9B (+21.8% YoY) with Google Cloud accelerating to 63% growth and backlog above $460B, but the 82% jump in diluted EPS to $5.11 rests largely on a $37.7B other-income line — mostly unrealized marks on non-marketable equity securities. Backing out the $36.9B equity-securities gain leaves EPS near $2.76, roughly flat against last year's $2.81. Rebuilding the FY2022–Q1 2026 books in a public Beancount ledger shows exactly where the gain landed — non-marketable securities rose from $68.7B to $106.9B, not cash.
