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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtYEaR6M6Ybdhm6X98BWNu
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtYEaR6M6Ybdhm6X98BWNu
Three reports a CPA expects that the engine could not produce:
- general_ledger(start, end): the canonical general ledger, organized by
account in code order. Each account has its beginning balance, every
posting in the period (date, entry, description, debit, credit, running
balance on the normal side) and its ending balance, which ties to the
trial balance. Each posting names its split: the one account on the
opposite side of its entry, or "-Split-" when that side has several,
so a compound entry (one debit, several credits) reads correctly from
every account it touches. The entry-ordered listing the exports called a
"general ledger" is really the general journal.
- trial_balance_as_of(as_of): a trial balance is always as of a date.
- members_equity(start, end, members): the statement of changes in
members' equity for a multi-member LLC taxed as a partnership. Each
member's capital roll-forward: beginning (capital plus their share of
undistributed earnings), contributions, allocated net income (loss),
distributions, ending. Allocation is by ownership share to the cent,
the last member absorbing rounding, so totals are exact and the ending
total equals balance-sheet equity; any equity change the roll-forward
can't explain shows as "other" instead of disappearing. Shares must be
positive and sum to exactly 1; capital accounts must be distinct
equity accounts (LedgerError::InvalidMembers).
- CashFlowLine.account: the account a line is about, so renderers can
name members instead of account codes.
Tests (every expectation computed by hand): trial balance as of Jan 31;
February general ledger with beginning balances, running balances, a
card that nets to zero, an inactive account still listed, and every
ending balance tied to the trial balance; a compound entry's splits from
all three sides; a two-member partnership where 666.67 and 100.01 split
unevenly (333.34/333.33, 50.01/50.00), with and without closing January,
tying to the balance sheet each month; bad member configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtYEaR6M6Ybdhm6X98BWNu
The engine only had life-of-ledger P&L and balance sheet totals, so every
export labeled with a date range or as-of date (PDF, XLSX, CPA package)
printed all-time numbers under that label. Core now has:
- profit_and_loss_for_period(start, end, class?) and
balance_sheet_as_of(as_of), each with a line per account
(StatementLine: code, name, normal-side amount) and exact totals.
- Ledger::closing_entry_ids(). Period statements exclude closing entries.
A close (Dr revenue / Cr expense / net to Retained Earnings, dated at
period end) moves earnings; it doesn't earn or spend. Counting it made a
closed period's P&L read as break-even, and made the cash flow show zero
net income plus a fake "owner contribution" to Retained Earnings. The
as-of balance sheet keeps closing entries: after a close the earnings
belong in Retained Earnings, not current earnings.
Tests: tests/statements.rs, a two-month fixture with every expected number
computed by hand (Jan NI 1,700; Feb 880; balance sheets on four dates; a
closed January still reporting 1,700 and a cash flow with one financing
line). Mutation-checked: dropping the closing exclusion fails it (0 vs
1,700). Properties: period P&Ls partition a year at any split, and a
range's net income equals the change in current earnings across it, with
A = L + E on both dates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtYEaR6M6Ybdhm6X98BWNu
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtYEaR6M6Ybdhm6X98BWNu
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