wanderbooks is a general MCP-first accounting application: every
business needs its accounts mapped to where they land on its income tax
return, and its CPA needs book-to-tax differences surfaced, not hidden.
- ledger_core::tax: a catalog of stable categories (gross_receipts,
commissions_fees, meals, guaranteed_payments, officer_compensation,
nondeductible, ...) with kind (income, cost of goods, deduction), the
returns each appears on (Schedule C, 1065, 1120-S, 1120), a default
deductible percent (meals 50, nondeductible 0), and guidance. Keys,
not line numbers: form lines move from year to year.
- Accounts carry tax_category and an optional deductible_percent
override, validated against the account type (and the return, at the
MCP layer), journaled as account.tax_set, replayed, projected (schema
v6).
- tax_summary(start, end, form): the P&L grouped by category, book and
deductible amounts (half away from zero to the cent), contra income
(refunds) reducing receipts, and every account still uncategorized.
- MCP: books.tax_categories (filtered to the configured return),
books.set_tax_category, a tax_summary report in every format and in
the CPA package, chart output with categories, and a fifth
tax_category column in chart CSV imports, validated before anything is
created. [company] tax_form, or derived from tax_classification.
Scope stays book basis: no tax depreciation, basis, or filing.
Tests: a hand-computed quarter (50% meals 333.33 -> 166.67, penalties at
0%, refunds as negative receipts, guaranteed payments, one uncategorized
account; book net 5,276.67 vs tax 5,483.33); overrides; category/account
/return validation; form parsing and derivation; CSV parsing; stdio:
filtered catalog, mapping, refusal, summary, all-or-nothing import.
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The close zeroed every revenue and expense account's all-time movement,
so closing a period after later entries were posted swept those too:
close January in March and February's and March's income landed in
January's closing entry. The preview had the same bug and never showed
where the net went. Now:
- close_period_to(id, to) zeroes balances as of the period end; entries
dated later stay open for their own period. Periods must close in
order (LedgerError::CloseOutOfOrder): a later close has already swept
the earlier period.
- CloseTo::Members: for a partnership (multi-member LLC) the net goes to
each member's capital account by share, to the cent, the last member
absorbing rounding, which is what K-1 capital accounts track.
CloseTo::RetainedEarnings (3999) stays the default; close_period is
shorthand for it. books.close_period picks Members when
wanderbooks.toml lists members.
- The journal records the close target; replay re-derives the closing
entry and now compares every line with the journal, not just the id,
so a change to closing math can never silently rewrite history.
- The tool's preview is the real close run on a clone of the ledger
(Ledger now derives Clone), so preview and post can't disagree.
- Members' equity: closing entries into a capital account are income,
not contributions. Balance sheet for a partnership: capital accounts
(with allocated earnings), then only unallocated earnings —
"Undistributed earnings, prior years" if any, and this year's unclosed
net income (loss). periods::allocate is shared by the close and the
statement.
Tests: January closed after February is posted sweeps exactly Dr 4000
2,500 / Cr 6100 800 / Cr 3999 1,700 (mutation-checked: the old code gives
3,500/120/800/2,580); out-of-order close refused; a partnership close
splits 666.67 into 333.34/333.33 with no 3999, and the members' equity
statement reads correctly before and after; store replay of a members
close (reopen, rebuild, verify); partnership and corporate balance sheet
layouts; stdio close preview equals the posted lines.
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Every report a CPA expects, laid out the way US small-business books
read (QuickBooks as the reference):
- Exports: books.export gains general_ledger (by account, running
balances, splits), general_journal (the entry-ordered listing, which
the CPA package used to mislabel "general ledger"; alias journal),
members_equity, and trial_balance as of a date, in xlsx/csv/json, and
PDF for all five statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, trial
balance, members' equity). books.trial_balance takes as_of.
- CPA package: every statement as PDF and XLSX, plus the general ledger
and general journal, all for the fiscal year to date.
- Layout (ledger-import::report): multi-column statements (Total;
Debit/Credit; one column per member plus Total), "$" on subtotals and
totals, a rule above every sum (none over an empty section), a double
rule under statement totals, zero as 0.00, negatives in parentheses
with the closing paren hanging so decimal points align.
- Terms: "Net income (loss)"; for a multi-member LLC, "Members' equity",
member contributions and distributions named in the cash flow, and the
balance sheet splitting retained earnings (the Retained Earnings
account plus earnings not yet closed from earlier years) from the
fiscal year's net income (loss); the cash flow's "Adjustments to
reconcile net income (loss) to net cash from operating activities" and
"Net increase (decrease) in cash".
- PDF: Inter replaces the typst-assets serif fonts (bundled, SIL OFL 1.1,
license in fonts/; from the official v4.1 release), centered title
block, column-header row, full-width rules, footer "Accrual basis ·
Prepared <date> · Journal seq N" with page numbers. Amounts on total
rows stay regular weight so bold figures can't leave the decimal
column. typst-assets dependency removed.
- XLSX: centered title block, header row, Excel accounting formats with
"$" attached on sums, general ledger and general journal workbooks.
- Config: wanderbooks.toml [[company.members]] (name, share "50%" or
"0.5", capital_account; shares must total 100%) and [books]
accounting_basis (accrual | cash).
- Core: RETAINED_EARNINGS_CODE names the "3999" that period close uses.
- Fix: "today" is local time, not UTC; in US evenings UTC is tomorrow,
so reports defaulting to "through today" included the next day and
footers carried the wrong date.
Tests: layout (currency and rule placement, retained earnings vs. this
year's net income for a member LLC, footer text); exact template data;
deterministic PDFs; config parsing (members, shares, basis); stdio:
trial balance as of, February general ledger (beginning 1,004.00, splits,
ending 1,003.50), members' equity (contributions 1,000.00, net income
3.50, ending 1,003.50), members' equity PDF, the CPA package's ten files.
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money() printed whatever scale a Decimal happened to have, so an empty
sum came back as "0" while every other amount read "207.68". Amounts now
have at least two places ("0.00", "1000.00"), padded and never rounded:
an exact FX-converted amount with more places keeps them. Negative zero
normalizes to "0.00".
Test: money_always_has_cents_and_never_rounds; three stdio assertions
that pinned the old "0" now expect "0.00".
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Zero warnings from `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets`, which is now
a hard rule rather than "clean except pre-existing":
- ChartOfAccounts::add takes the Account it registers instead of eight
loose parameters (too_many_arguments); Ledger::add_account builds it.
Same validation, same errors.
- close_period tool: collapse the nested if-let into a let chain.
- iif.rs docs: the IIF layout example shows tabs as `\t` instead of
literal tab characters (tabs_in_doc_comments).
- Tests: drop an unused binding; assert! instead of assert_eq! against a
literal bool.
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The printpdf statements padded columns with spaces in a proportional font
(amounts didn't line up), had no company name, printed negatives as
"-207.68", and put everything on one page (a long statement was silently
cut off past ~70 lines). Now:
- PDFs are typeset by Typst from one template,
ledger-import/templates/statement.typ. The laid-out statement goes in as
JSON data (sys.inputs), so account names are never parsed as markup.
Fonts are bundled (typst-assets: Libertinus Serif), so output doesn't
depend on the machine and is byte-for-byte deterministic. Statements
paginate, with the company/title repeated on later pages and "Page n of
m" plus "Prepared from journal through seq N" in the footer.
- US accounting presentation, decided once in ledger-import::report and
applied by both PDF and XLSX: tabular figures; "$" on each section's
first amount and on every subtotal and total, pinned to the column's
left edge; negatives in parentheses with the closing paren hanging (its
width reserved on every row, so decimal points align); zero as a dash;
a single rule above sums (none over an empty section) and a double rule
under statement totals; amounts never bold, because bold figures are
wider and would leave the decimal column. XLSX uses Excel's own
Accounting formats for the same result.
- Cash flow: "Net change in cash" is a subtotal; only "Cash at end of
period" takes the double rule.
- Core fix: cash_flow walked the chart in HashMap order, so the order of
working-capital and financing lines could change between runs. Lines
now follow account code. Test: five owners, twenty runs, always
3000/3001/3003/3005/3009; fails without the sort.
New dependencies (ledger-import): typst, typst-layout, typst-pdf,
typst-assets (fonts), typst-as-lib (World/font plumbing), serde_json (the
template's data). Removed: printpdf. Release ledger-mcp grows by the
bundled fonts.
Tests: exact template data for a hand-built P&L (like a golden); same
statement renders to identical bytes; 200 rows of Typst markup
characters render literally and span several pages; currency-sign and
rule placement; amount splitting.
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Every statement export rendered life-of-ledger totals under whatever date
range or as-of label was asked for, and the P&L and balance sheet XLSX
were totals-only. Now:
- books.profit_and_loss / books.balance_sheet and the csv, json, xlsx,
pdf exports and CPA package all use core's profit_and_loss_for_period
and balance_sheet_as_of, with a line per account. The tools keep their
totals and add revenue/expense/asset/liability/equity account lines.
An omitted start is the first posted entry, never "0001-01-01".
- ledger-import::report lays a statement out once (section, line,
subtotal, total) for every renderer, with one exact amount formatter:
thousands separators, negatives in parentheses, no floats. XLSX keeps
numeric cells with an accounting number format, named sheets, company
header, totals with borders; the trial balance gains its totals row.
- ledger-mcp reads wanderbooks.toml (next to --data-dir, or
--books-toml): company name for headers, fiscal_year_start for the CPA
package's fiscal year to date (end derived; Feb 29 rejected), and
[books] receipt_threshold, which the server had been ignoring.
config.json's receipt_policy still wins when set. New dependency: toml
1.x (already in the lockfile via another crate).
- Store::journal_seq(); every report notes the journal seq it reflects.
Tests: company.rs unit tests (fiscal years incl. a July start, scaffold
parsing, bad settings); report.rs formatting tests; an MCP stdio test with
--books-toml (threshold 5.00 enforced, February-only P&L with account
lines, start defaults to the first entry, as-of balance sheet).
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The cash flow statement was computed and exportable as csv/json/xlsx but
missing from every PDF path, so the CPA package carried two of the three
financial statements. Now:
- ledger-import: cash_flow_pdf renders the indirect-method statement
(operating with net income, depreciation add-back, working-capital
lines; investing; financing; net change reconciled to beginning and
ending cash) from the computed CashFlowStatement, so the period and
cash accounts are the caller's.
- books.export gains format "pdf" for profit_and_loss, balance_sheet, and
cash_flow (base64, like xlsx), plus financing_accounts for cash_flow.
- books.export_cpa_package adds cash-flow.pdf (fiscal year to date, like
the P&L) and requires cash_accounts: without them the statement has
nothing to reconcile to.
- One cash_flow_statement helper resolves codes and dates for xlsx, pdf,
and the package.
Test: MCP stdio test exports all three statement PDFs, checks the
cash_accounts and bad-report refusals, and unzips the CPA package to find
all five files. Known report gaps are logged in plan/STATUS.md.
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Posted entries stay immutable (R-3), but their evidence can now change the
same way the ledger does: by appending events, never by editing or
deleting. New R-13a.
- books.unlink_receipt {attachment_id, reason} journals receipt.unlinked
and leaves the receipt filed, unlinked. The receipt policy holds: an
entry that requires a receipt can't lose its last one (structured
receipt_required error), so a replacement is attach-new, then
unlink-old. Drafts and reversals are exempt, as at posting.
- books.withdraw_attachment {attachment_id, reason} journals
attachment.withdrawn for an unlinked receipt or a filed document: hidden
from list_receipts (unless include_withdrawn), never linkable again. The
blob stays in the store, hash-verified and readable.
- link_receipt now refuses an already-linked or withdrawn attachment.
Before, re-linking silently moved a receipt off a posted entry,
bypassing the policy; evidence now leaves an entry only through a
recorded unlink. dispose_asset checks its receipt ids before posting
instead of after.
- Schema v5 adds attachments.withdrawn_at/withdrawn_reason; existing
stores migrate on open and replay rebuilds the projection.
Tests: store test (errors, reopen, rebuild, verify, journal history) and
an MCP stdio test (policy refusal, replace flow, withdraw, listings,
under-threshold unlink). Dry-run and live use on the Wanderland Labs books:
8 migrated .eml attachments swapped for their PDF renders, trial balance
unchanged.
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