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Contributions since last reporting period should not be added in for total funds #67

Open evz opened 8 years ago

evz commented 8 years ago

Originally created by fgregg on 2015-09-16T02:45:41Z

Right now to calculate total funds we take the balance from the last reporting periodic (quarterly) filing and then add a1s that have come in since then.

This gives us an innacurate total funds since we don't know about expenditures or small donations. We should not do this.

attn @derekeder, @evz