Open benjaminweb opened 11 months ago
support for viewing such attachments in hledger-web would be great. It sounds like an easy project. Just needs a bit of design - perhaps the simplest would be to reserve the file: tag and link that. (That would work for a single attachment per transaction or posting or account. Though I guess you could repeat it too. )
German bookkeeping requirements are prevalent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It requires every transaction to have its reference document (proof).
“No transaction without reference document.”
The books are usually furthered starting from the reference documents:
As you see, the process is driven by the reference documents.
Reference documents can be:
Semantically:
Hard requirements: a. Progressive validity: Starting from each reference document every transaction must be verifiable. b. Retrograde validity: Starting from each transaction, each reference document must be verifiable.
Implementation requirements:
Available hledger functionality:
Additional required hledger functionality: It would be helpful to be able to
How to organise digital references?
Beancount suggests one scenario to organise the digital references by mirroring the accounts hierarchy.