cleanup readme and add simple web command
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In /journal, you will find the beginning of a bookkeeping journal.
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To view the current state of the journal you can use [hledger](https://hledger.org) and hledger-web. After downloading both softwares, run `hledger -f journal/index.ledger web` to view the current state of the journal.
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To view the current state of the journal you can use [hledger](https://hledger.org) and hledger-web. After downloading both softwares, run `./web.sh` to view the current state of the journal.
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We have not consensed on the usage of hledger and plain text accounting as the ultimate tool for bookkeeping.
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The top level account is accurate to 2026/06/30. Some historical transactions may need to be recoded for accuracy after discussion. Restricted accounts with a negative balance are over-utilized, while restricted accounts with a positive balance are under-utilized.
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Next tasks include:
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- [ ] accounting for budgeting in EUR while our ficsal host uses GBP
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- [ ] applying expensess and revenues accounts to historical transactions
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- [ ] associating historical transactions with their appropriate restricted funds
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*note: We have not consensed on the usage of hledger and plain text accounting as the ultimate tool for bookkeeping.*
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## Notes
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### Accounts
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Most transactions are currently associated with appropriate accounts, however there are some questions (especially for older transactions) to chase down for individual transactions.
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Payment processing fees do not currently have their own expense account, this is something to tackle soon.
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All budget decisions are associated with their own subaccounts in a `restricted` account of `assets`. This makes the assets account have the structure
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```
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assets
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- common-fund
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- restricted
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- BUDGET-###
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```
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### Currencies
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Our opencollective account transacts in GBP, while our budgeting is done in EUR; most historical transactions seem to have lost (or never had) original currency data. Rather than calculating a conversion rate for each transaction (many of which do not have the data to support an accurate rate), i have added monthly historical exchange rates for GBP-EUR. This is mostly to support a single currency for ease of reporting.
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