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Damin Mutti4d ago • 4 min read
Modelling a month-end close as a state machine, with a lock date and an undo log
A month-end close is a state machine on two levels. Each account's month moves from open to tied to....
#accounting#architecture#typescript#fintech
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Damin Mutti6d ago • 4 min read
Building a construction WIP schedule in Python: percent complete, over and under billing, and the month-end entry
A construction WIP schedule computes earned revenue for each open job as contract price times percen...
#accounting#python#construction#datamodeling
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Damin Mutti3d ago • 6 min read
Parsing financial statement PDFs: parentheses, comparative columns and subtotal checks
A financial statement PDF is a tree of labels and numbers, and turning it into rows you can trust...
#python#pdf#dataengineering#accounting
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Damin Mutti1d ago • 4 min read
Proving a parsed brokerage statement: the cash check and the position check in Python
To prove a parsed brokerage statement, run two checks. First, opening cash plus every signed activit...
#python#fintech#dataengineering#accounting
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Dash Ai1d ago • 4 min read
Our AI read the right data and still wrote the wrong name
Picture a shop owner at closing time asking their assistant one question: who still owes me...
#ai#erp#accounting#startup
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Damin Mutti4d ago • 4 min read
A restaurant month as double-entry data: prime cost, tip liabilities and delivery gross-up
If you model a restaurant's books as data, a handful of rules carry most of the weight. Prime cost i...
#accounting#python#datamodeling#smallbusiness
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Damin Mutti4d ago • 7 min read
An AI agent that does the books without touching the database
ZeraBooks lets its AI agent, Ask Zera, keep a company's books without any database access at all. Th...
#ai#agents#typescript#accounting
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Damin Mutti3d ago • 6 min read
Modeling a chart of accounts: number ranges, types and a CSV import format
A chart of accounts model that keeps reports and imports stable needs only a few rules: every accoun...
#typescript#datamodeling#accounting#csv
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Damin Mutti4d ago • 4 min read
Three-way reconciliation as a data integrity check for law firm trust accounts
A three-way trust reconciliation compares the trust bank statement's closing balance, the trust...
#accounting#sql#dataengineering#fintech
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Damin Mutti4d ago • 4 min read
Finding the month a bank balance broke: reconciliation as a data integrity check
A small business's books are nine months behind and the ledger's checking balance is off by $5,200.4...
#accounting#python#data#fintech
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Damin Mutti3d ago • 6 min read
Validating a Xero bank CSV before import: a small checker in plain JavaScript
Most bad Xero bank imports can be caught before you click Import, with a few checks on the CSV: ever...
#javascript#node#accounting#csv
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Damin Mutti3d ago • 6 min read
Detecting gaps and overlaps when merging monthly bank statements
When you merge monthly bank statements, treat the balances as a chain and test every link. Each...
#python#data#accounting#fintech
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Damin Mutti4d ago • 4 min read
Nonprofit books as a data model: two extra dimensions on every ledger line
A for-profit ledger line needs an account, a date and an amount. A nonprofit's line needs two more.....
#accounting#datamodeling#nonprofit#python
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Damin Mutti3d ago • 6 min read
A line-item schema for invoice extraction (and the checks that catch bad reads)
When you extract data from invoices, store one record per invoice and one per line, in integer cents...
#typescript#ocr#datamodeling#accounting
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Damin Mutti5d ago • 4 min read
A proof of cash validator in 40 lines of Python: every row and every column has to tie
A proof of cash is valid only when two rules hold. Across: every row satisfies beginning + receipts ...
#python#accounting#csv#fintech
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Damin Mutti5d ago • 4 min read
A break-even model for bookkeeping costs: when does a hire beat a freelancer?
Under the assumptions below, a full-time bookkeeper costs about $5,212 a month, and a $45-an-hour...
#typescript#smallbusiness#accounting#modeling
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Damin Mutti5d ago • 4 min read
The trust account invariant: one bank balance, many owners, and the check that catches commingling
A property manager's trust account obeys one invariant: bank balance = every owner's balance + every...
#accounting#python#datamodeling#realestate
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Damin Mutti6d ago • 4 min read
Migrating books between providers: tying opening balances to bank statements, with uncleared items
When books move between providers, the new ledger opens with the old provider's last balance sheet.....
#accounting#python#datamigration#fintech
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Damin Mutti1d ago • 3 min read
Splitting a business card statement by cardholder, and keeping year-to-date totals out of the rows
A business card statement has two kinds of numbers: transactions, and totals of transactions. A...
#python#fintech#parsing#accounting
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viraj geeth4d ago • 3 min read
Pushing Official Central Bank Exchange Rates into QuickBooks Online (One POST per Currency per Day)
QuickBooks Online accepts a custom rate per currency per day through the ExchangeRate entity. Here i...
#quickbooks#python#accounting#api
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viraj geeth3d ago • 3 min read
Booking Xero Invoices at the Official Central Bank Rate (Xero Won't Let You Replace Its Feed, Here's the Workaround)
Xero fills organisation rates from XE and exposes no endpoint to swap the feed. The compliant path i...
#xero#python#accounting#api
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ScriptMasterLabs 5d ago • 2 min read
Can AI Agents Safely Write to the General Ledger? 13 Write Operations Counted, 0 Silent in a Locked Period
Can AI Agents Safely Write to the General Ledger? 13 Write Operations Counted, 0 Silent in a...
#ai#mcp#accounting#agents
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Dean5d ago • 2 min read
Why do finance teams reject black-box AI in revenue accounting?
Controllers and QoE teams reject black-box AI: their name is on the workpapers. What passes an audit...
#accounting#ai#finance#saas
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Dean2d ago • 2 min read
How is 18% GST handled under Ind AS 115 for a SaaS contract?
A ₹11,80,000 invoice with 18% GST: exclude GST from the transaction price, allocate ₹10,00,000 by re...
#accounting#finance#india#saas
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