Accountancy utilities for your small (french) business
Project description
Colbert is not about Stephen Colbert. It is serious matter.
The name is a tribute to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the Minister of Finances of France in the 17th century also known for being the father of the modern accountancy.
Functionalities
Colbert helps you to manage your accountancy with a unique constraint : get your Livre Journal (the book where you are supposed to daily register the financial operations) up-to-date. That’s it.
From that file it produce the annual reports (Bilan, Compte de résultat etc). There are also some utilities to check your Livre-journal against the bank reports, to generate invoices, activity report from iCalendar etc.
The big disclaimer(s)
I don’t know shit about accountancy (hopefully, this is less and less true). I am running a very small business since 2011 and there is two things I wanted to avoid for my fiscal and financial obligations:
to throw 3k€/year to pay someone Porsche gas ;
to learn a terrible closed source piece of accountancy software instead of understanding the roots.
So I first decided to write a Django project to record my expenses, my incomes and automagically generate the client’s invoices. That worked pretty well and I am still using it for the LaTeX invoices.
But when the administrative procedures are falling you have to face the reality. You cannot do accountancy without understanding accountancy.
I decided to restart from scratch with a very light architecture while learning the discipline allowing me to adapt it quickly to the new knowledge I was going to acquire during the development process. Learning accountancy is a big task and this is illusion to think that you can learn first and modelize it in a second step.
And you know what ? The concepts behind the accountancy as they were thought four centuries ago are pure beauty. As beautiful as Unix’ pipes. Simple, universal and powerful.
It is all about inputs and outputs. Every single input must be balanced by an output of the same amount and vice-versa.
The idea behind the Plan Comptable Général (Chart of accounts) is of the same blood. In Unix, everything is a file. In accountancy, everything is an account.
You can see accounts like a filesystem. You can create as much leafs and forks as you need.
This is a work in progress and the product is at his very early stage. A lot of refactoring in the code will happen but for now I keep it as much simple as I can. This is not yet an object-oriented program with metaclasses and other fancy concepts. I need to keep the codebase easy to move as long as I have not validate my knowledge which may take a couple of years.
Some stuffs are hard-coded because at a proof-of-concept stage.
All that prose to say «don’t blind-trust this software if you want to use it».
Being French, this software is written for French accountancy in a French vocable. But the concept seems to be universal and with a little effort you can fork it to match what you need in your own country.
I am using the BSD implementation of your favorite tools (sed, grep etc).
The concepts
Colbert is all about human-readable text files. reStructuredText and JSON files. You organize those files in a logical manner and extensively use Makefiles to generate other files and produce beautiful LaTeX and PDF outputs for the administration and yourself.
The core of accountancy is le livre-journal (grow a mustache and try to pronounce it with a glass of Bordeaux Haut-Médoc in your right-hand). This is our «database» where every single operation occuring in your business is recorded.
This book is usualy splitted in several ones to regroup together operations by type. I don’t need that, so I don’t do that.
my organization is the following:
+ MyBusiness/ +-- accountancy/ +-- livre-journal/ +-- livre-journal.txt | | | +-- Makefile | +-- 2011/ +-- grand-livre/ | | | +-- releves-bancaires/ | | | +-- factures/ | | | +-- balance-des-comptes/ | | | +-- bilan/ | | | +-- compte-de-resultat/ | | | +-- TVA/ | | | +-- ecritures-de-cloture/ | +-- 2012/ +-- grand-livre/ | | | +-- releves-bancaires/ ...
Le livre-journal is a never-ending story, this is the reason for keeping it at the root level. In accountancy, a main concept is l’indépendance des exercices comptables which is why I have broken down my organization by year (I am opening my accounts on Junary the 1st and closing them on December, 31th, every year).
In each year directory reside sub-directories named with the tasks, books or documents you have to deal with and produce all along the financial/fiscal year.
Almost every sub-directory should contain a Makefile to automatically call some Colbert or LaTeX routines to update your files from the source (which may be the livre-journal, the Grand-livre or the Balance des comptes).
In a nutshell, a typical usage at the end of a fiscal year is:
having a Livre-journal up-to-date and accurate ;
check your relevés bancaires (bank statement) against the Livre-journal. Go back to (1) if it is not the case ;
generate the Grand-livre as JSON from the Livre-journal ;
generate the Balance des comptes from the grand_livre.json file ;
compute the Bilan from the balance_des_comptes.json file ;
compute the Compte de résultat from the balance_des_comptes.json file ;
compute the écritures de clôture from the balance_des_comptes.json file and write them back to the Livre-journal ;
Note : each JSON file can be converted in a reStructuredText format with a colbert_*_to_rst script.
Le Livre-journal
The Livre-journal is a diary or a book where every flow of money is logged. There is a tight legislation concerning those books in general and you must refer yourself to the legislation of your country or juridiction.
In Colbert, this is a reStructuredText file meeting the french administration requirements (the columns’ width had been reduced to fit properly in this document):
================== MyBusiness S.A.R.L ================== ------------- Livre-Journal ------------- +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | Date | N°compte débit | N°compte crédit | Intitulé / nom du compte | Débit en €| Crédit en | +=============+=================+=================+=================================================+===========+===========+ | *Mars 2011* | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ || 18/03/2011 || || || Frais de constitution de la société CFE Paris. || || | || || 6227 || || Achats - Frais d'actes et de contentieux || 80.00 || | || || 44566 || || T.V.A. déductible sur autres biens et services || 10.45 || | || || || 455 || Associés - Comptes courants || || 90.45 | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ || 18/03/2011 || || || Frais de constitution de la société - Annonce || || | || || 6227 || || Achats - Frais d'actes et de contentieux || 80.00 || | || || 44566 || || T.V.A. déductible sur autres biens et services || 19.00 || | || || || 455 || Associés - Comptes courants || || 99.00 | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ || 31/03/2011 || || || Facture 2011-01 MyClient1 || || | || || || || Prestation MyClient1 mars 2011 || || | || || 4111-CL1 || || Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations || 980.00 || | || || || 706 || Produits - prestations de services || || 5 000.00| || || || 44587 || Taxes sur le CA sur factures à établir || || 980.00 | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | *Avril 2011* | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ || 01/04/2011 || || || Résultat arrêté compte || || | || || 6278-LCL || || Autres frais de commission sur prestations || 48.00 || | || || || 512 || Banques || || 48.00 | +-------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
Each entry is a multiline row in the table.
I use Line Blocks to get a descent formatting in the multiline cells. Trying to right-align the content of the two last columns was a failure. In fact for a reason I don’t get, if those values are not left-aligned, the LaTeX conversion sucks.
The optional thousand separator cannot be anything else than a space character at the moment. This is on the TODO list.
Checking the Livre-journal
A first script allows you to check the entries balance of the book:
$ colbert_check_livre_journal.py my_livre_journal.txt
My Makefile in the Livre-journal directory being:
FILENAME="livre-journal" all: pdf pdf: tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @colbert_check_livre_journal.py $(FILENAME).txt tex: @rst2latex.py $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex purge: clean @for ext in ".pdf" ".tex" ".txt"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tex.tmp"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
Computing VAT
The colbert_solder_tva.py script compute the flow of money on the VAT-related accounts for a period of time and produce an JSON-entry to counter-balance these entries. Then you (manually) copy/paste this entry in the Livre-journal. Obviously, the JSON-entry need to be converted first in the reStructuredText format of the Livre-journal with the colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal.py utility.
This is something you have to do every month or every quarter in France.
In the TVA directory:
$ colbert_solder_tva ../../livre-journal/livre-journal.txt -d 01/03/2011 -f 30/9/2011 > solde-tva-sept-2011.json $ colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal solde-tva-sept-2011.json > solde-tva-sept-2011.txt
Le Grand-livre
In that book are gathered the entries of the Livre-journal by account number for a period of time (a fiscal year). One table for every single account.
Every account should start with the report à nouveau (the balance) of the previous fiscal year.
To generate the Grand-livre, run the following:
$ @colbert_grand_livre.py ../../livre-journal/livre-journal.txt --label="MyBusiness - Grand-Livre 2011" -d 1/1/2011 -f 31/12/2011 > grand-livre_2011.json
And then in reStructuredText:
$ colbert_grand_livre_to_rst.py grand-livre_2011.json > grand-livre_2011.txt
Or in a Makefile:
FILENAME="grand_livre-2011" DATE_DEBUT="18/03/2011" DATE_FIN="31/12/2011" all: pdf pdf: tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex tex: rst @rst2latex.py --table-style=booktabs $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex.tmp @sed -E -f fix_table.sed < $(FILENAME).tex.tmp > $(FILENAME).tex rst: json @echo "Conversion du grand livre au format reStructuredText..." @colbert_grand_livre_to_rst.py $(FILENAME).json > $(FILENAME).txt json: @echo "calcul du Grand-Livre..." @colbert_grand_livre.py ../../livre-journal/livre-journal.txt --label="MyBusiness - Grand-Livre 2011" -d $(DATE_DEBUT) -f $(DATE_FIN) > $(FILENAME).json purge: clean @for ext in ".pdf" ".tex" ".txt"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tex.tmp"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
The fix_table.sed in the TeX conversion rule is a Sed script managing the right-alignment of the money columns:
s/\\begin{longtable\*}.*/\\newcolumntype{x}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedleft\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\newcolumntype{y}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedright\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\begin{longtable*}[c]{y{2cm}y{7.5cm}x{2cm}|y{2cm}y{7.5cm}x{2cm}}/ s/&[[:space:]]+\\\\/\& \\tabularnewline/ s/[[:space:]]+\\\\$/\\tabularnewline/
Here an example of the reStructuredText output:
================ Grand-Livre 2011 ================ ----------------------------------- Période du 01/03/2011 au 31/12/2011 ----------------------------------- 100 - *Capital et compte de l'exploitant* ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------+---------------------------------------+---------+ | Date | Libellé | Débit | Date | Libellé | Crédit | +============+=================================+=============+============+=======================================+=========+ | | | | 02/04/2011 | Capital initial Dépôt de 1500 € par...| 1500.00 | +------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------+---------------------------------------+---------+ | | *Solde créditeur au 31/12/2011* | **1500.00** | | | | +------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------+---------------------------------------+---------+ .. raw:: latex \newpage 4111-CL1 - *Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de services* ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------+---------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+ | Date | Libellé | Débit | Date | Libellé | Crédit | +============+=================================+==========+============+=========================================+==========+ | 31/03/2011 | Facture 2011-01 MyClient1 ... | 5980.00 | 02/09/2011 | Virement MyClient1 ZZZZZZZZZZZ Facture..| 5980.00 | +------------+---------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+ | 28/09/2011 | Facture 2011-04 MyClient1 ... | 13156.00 | 01/12/2011 | Virement MyClient1 WWWWWWWWWW Facture...| 18538.00 | +------------+---------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+ | 01/11/2011 | Facture 2011-05 MyClient1 ... | 5382.00 | | | | +------------+---------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+ | | *Compte soldé au 31/12/2011.* | | | *Compte soldé au 31/12/2011.* | | +------------+---------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+ .. raw:: latex
N+1 years
When you start a new year there are two things to keep in mind for the Grand-Livre :
to start with the Report à nouveau of the account of the previous year ;
to include the entries of the previous year that have not been included in the Grand-Livre.
Colbert does it for you. All you have to do is to provide the path of the previous one (as JSON):
$ @colbert_grand_livre.py ../../livre-journal/livre-journal.txt --label="MyBusiness - Grand-Livre 2012" -d 1/1/2012 -f 31/12/2012 -p ../../2011/grand-livre/grand-livre_2011.json > grand-livre_2012.json
La balance des comptes
The next financial piece is a single table regrouping the balance of the accounts. It is computed from the Grand-livre for the sake of simplicity.
Again, you first generate a JSON file and then a reStructuredText file:
$ colbert_balance_des_comptes.py ../grand-livre/grand_livre-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Balance des comptes 2011 en €" > $balance-des-comptes.json $ colbert_balance_des_comptes_to_rst.py balance-des-comptes.json > balance-des-comptes.txt
And again, you should use this Makefile:
FILENAME="balance_des_comptes-2011" all: pdf pdf: tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex tex: rst @rst2latex.py --table-style=booktabs $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex.tmp @sed -E -f fix_table.sed < $(FILENAME).tex.tmp > $(FILENAME).tex rst: json @echo "Conversion de la balance des comptes au format reStructuredText..." @colbert_balance_des_comptes_to_rst.py $(FILENAME).json > $(FILENAME).txt json: @echo "calcul de la balance des comptes..." @colbert_balance_des_comptes.py ../grand-livre/grand_livre-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Balance des comptes 2011 en €" > $(FILENAME).json purge: clean @for ext in ".pdf" ".tex" ".txt"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tex.tmp"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
With the Sed fix:
s/\\begin{longtable\*}.*/\\newcolumntype{x}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedleft\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\newcolumntype{y}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedright\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\begin{longtable*}[c]{y{2cm}y{8.5cm}x{2.2cm}x{2.2cm}x{2.2cm}x{2.2cm}}/ s/} \\\\/} \\tabularnewline/ s/&[[:space:]]+\\\\/\& \\tabularnewline/ s/[[:space:]]+\\\\$/\\tabularnewline/
And here a example of the reStructuredText output (again, the table width had been reduced here to fit well):
===================================== Balance des comptes 2011 - MyBusiness ===================================== ----------------------------------- Période du 01/03/2011 au 31/12/2011 ----------------------------------- +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | N° | Libellé | Total débit | Total crédit | Solde débit | Solde crédit| +==============+===================================================+=============+==============+=============+=============+ | 100 | Capital et compte de l'exploitant | | 1500.00 | | 1500.00 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 4111-CL1 | Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de ser...| 24518.00 | 24518.00 | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 4111-CL2 | Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de ser...| 1794.00 | 1794.00 | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 4111-CL3 | Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de ser...| 8372.00 | | 8372.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 4181 | Clients - Factures à établir | 13156.00 | | 13156.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 44551 | TVA à décaisser | 1240.00 | 4278.00 | | 3038.00 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 44566 | T.V.A. déductible sur autres biens et services | 33.66 | 33.66 | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 44571 | T.V.A. Collectée | 4312.00 | 4312.00 | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 44587 | Taxes sur le CA sur factures à établir | 4312.00 | 7840.00 | | 3528.00 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 455 | Associés - Comptes courants | | 189.45 | | 189.45 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 512 | Banques | 27812.00 | 5132.65 | 22679.35 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 60225 | Achats - Fournitures de bureau | 21.44 | | 21.44 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6227 | Achats - Frais d'actes et de contentieux | 160.00 | | 160.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6278-LCL | Autres frais de commission sur prestations de s...| 72.00 | | 72.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6411 | Charges - Salaires et appointements | 3000.00 | | 3000.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6411-RSI | Charges - cotisations RSI | 393.00 | | 393.00 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6411-URSF1 | Charges - cotisations URSSAF - Allocations famil..| 161.80 | | 161.80 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6411-URSF2 | Charges - cotisations URSSAF - CSG/RDS déducti... | 153.31 | | 153.31 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 6411-URSF3 | Charges - cotisations URSSAF - CSG/RDS non-dédu...| 86.89 | | 86.89 | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 706 | Produits - prestations de services | | 40000.00 | | 40000.00 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | 758 | Produits divers de gestion courante | | 0.34 | | 0.34 | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | | **Totaux** | **89598.10**| **89598.10** | **48255.79**| **48255.79**| +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
Le Bilan
This document is a résumé or a «picture» of your business. It is generated from the Balance des comptes:
$ colbert_bilan.py ../balance-des-comptes/balance_des_comptes-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Bilan 2011 en €" > bilan.json $ colbert_bilan_to_rst.py bilan.json > bilan.txt
A Makefile to automatically do all the work:
FILENAME="bilan-2011" all: pdf pdf: tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex tex: rst @rst2latex.py --table-style=booktabs --output-encoding=utf-8 $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex.tmp @sed -E -f fix_table.sed < $(FILENAME).tex.tmp > $(FILENAME).tex rst: json @echo "Conversion du bilan au format reStructuredText..." @colbert_bilan_to_rst.py $(FILENAME).json > $(FILENAME).txt json: @echo "calcul de la bilan..." @colbert_bilan.py ../balance-des-comptes/balance_des_comptes-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Bilan 2011 en €" > $(FILENAME).json purge: clean @for ext in ".pdf" ".tex" ".txt"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tex.tmp"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
And the Sed script:
s/\\setlength{\\DUtablewidth}{\\linewidth}/\\setlength{\\tabcolsep}{25pt} \\setlength{\\extrarowheight}{4.5pt}/ s/\\begin{longtable\*}.*/\\begin{longtable*}[c]{lrrr|lr}/
The reStructuredText output:
======================= Bilan 2011 - MyBusiness ======================= ----------------------------------- Période du 01/04/2011 au 31/12/2011 ----------------------------------- +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | Actif | Brut | Amortissement | Net | Passif | Montant | +==============================+==================+================+===============+=======================+===============+ | **Actif_circulant** | | | | **Capitaux_propres** | | +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | Client_et_comptes_rattaches | 11960.00 | | 11960.00 | Resultat | 9922.65 | +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | Autres_creances | 4.21 | | 4.21 | **Dettes** | | +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | | | | | Autres_dettes | 2041.56 | +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | *Total* | *11964.21* | *0.00* | **11964.21** | *Total* | **11964.21** | +------------------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------------+---------------+
Le compte de résultat
The purpose of this last document is to give an idea of your activity during the fiscal year:
$ colbert_compte_de_resultat.py ../balance-des-comptes/balance_des_comptes-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Compte de résultat 2011 en €" > compte-de-resultat.json $ colbert_compte_de_resultat_to_rst.py compte-de-resultat.json > compte-de-resultat.txt
In a Makefile:
FILENAME="compte_de_resultat-2011" all: pdf pdf: tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex @pdflatex $(FILENAME).tex tex: rst @rst2latex.py --table-style=booktabs --output-encoding=utf-8 $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex.tmp @sed -E -f fix_table.sed < $(FILENAME).tex.tmp > $(FILENAME).tex rst: json @echo "Conversion du compte de résultat au format reStructuredText..." @colbert_compte_de_resultat_to_rst.py $(FILENAME).json > $(FILENAME).txt json: @echo "calcul du compte de résultat..." @colbert_compte_de_resultat.py ../balance-des-comptes/balance_des_comptes-2011.json --label="MyBusiness - Compte de résultat 2011 en €" > $(FILENAME).json purge: clean @for ext in ".pdf" ".tex" ".txt"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tex.tmp"; do\ [ -e $(FILENAME)$${ext} ] && rm $(FILENAME)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
The Sed script:
s/\\begin{longtable\*}.*/\\newcolumntype{x}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedleft\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\newcolumntype{y}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedright\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\begin{longtable*}[c]{y{8.5cm}x{2.2cm}|y{8.5cm}x{2.2cm}}/ s/} \\\\/} \\tabularnewline/ s/&[[:space:]]+\\\\/\& \\tabularnewline/ s/[[:space:]]+\\\\$/\\tabularnewline/
The reStructuredText output:
==================================== Compte de résultat 2011 - MyBusiness ==================================== ----------------------------------- Période du 01/03/2011 au 31/12/2011 ----------------------------------- +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | Charges | Montant | Produits | Montant | +=================================+===========+==================================================+==================+ | *Charges d'exploitation* | | *Produits d'exploitation* | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | Rémunérations du personnel | 3795.00 | Prestations de services | 40000.00 | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | Fournitures non stockables | 21.44 | Autres produits de gestion courante | 0.34 | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | Autres services extérieurs | 232.00 | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | *Charges financières* | | *Produits financiers* | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | *Charges exceptionnelles* | | *Produits exceptionnels* | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | **Sous-total charges** | 4048.44 | **Sous-total produits** | 40000.34 | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+ | **Résultat (bénéfice)** | 35951.90 | | | +---------------------------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+------------------+
Managing the transition between 2 fiscal years
When you have closed your fiscal year (say 2011) you have to create a new one (2012). In Colbert, you create a new directory, 2012, aside 2011. You can simply make a cp 2011 2012, then run the make purge rules in each subdirectories and replace the dates and the filenames at the top of each Makefile.
This may looks a bit awkward but this occurs only once a year!
Les écritures de clôture
When a fiscal year is closed and when your documents and books are up-to-date (Grand-livre, Balance des comptes, Bilan and Compte de résultat) you have to insert in the Livre-journal the écritures de clôture (accounts closing entries). The purpose of these entries is:
to reset the comptes de résultat (in France, it is those having a number in 6xx and 7xx) ;
transfert the gain or the lost registred at the end of the fiscal year on the comptes de bilan.
Colbert comes with a script to compute such entries:
$ colbert_ecritures_de_cloture.py ../balance-des-comptes/balance_des_comptes-2011.json > ecritures-de-cloture.json $ colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal.py --label="Ecriture de cloture a reporter au Livre-journal" ecritures-de-cloture.json > ecritures-de-cloture.txt
And copy/paste the body of ecritures-de-cloture.txt into the Livre-journal at the right place.
Checking your account statements against the Livre-journal
There must be reciprocity between your account statements from your bank and the entries in your Livre-journal.
Colbert is able to generate account statements for a bank account (say 512) and to check the balance against a JSON file representing the balances of each account statement received from the bank establishment. Write such a file with your best text editor:
[ { 'numero_compte': "512", 'journaux': [ { 'label': "Avril 2011", 'date_debut': "01/04/2011", 'date_fin': "02/05/2011", 'debit_initial': "0.00", 'credit_initial': "0.00", 'debit_final': "1485.93", 'credit_final': "0.00", }, { 'label': "Mai 2011", 'date_debut': "03/05/2011", 'date_fin': "01/06/2011", 'debit_initial': "1485.93", 'credit_initial': "0.00", 'debit_final': "1461.94", 'credit_final': "0.00", }, ] } ]
And run colbert_solde_de_compte.py ../../../livre-journal/livre-journal.txt solde.json which outputs:
===================== Compte n°512 en Euros ===================== Avril 2011 '''''''''' +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ | Date | Libellé | Débit | Crédit | Solde débiteur| Solde créditeur| +============+=======================================================+========+============+===============+================+ | 01/04/2011 | Report à nouveau | | | | | +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ | 01/04/2011 | Résultat arrêté compte | | 48.00 | | 48.00 | +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ | 02/04/2011 | Capital initial Dépôt de 1500 € par Stanislas Guerra a| 1500.00| | 1452.00 | | +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ | 28/04/2011 | Cotisation Option PRO LCL | | 15.00 | 1437.00 | | +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ | 02/05/2011 | Abonnement LCL Access | | 3.00 | 1434.00 | | +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------+---------------+----------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Solde final calculé (*1434.00*, débiteur) *différent* du solde final attendu (*1485.93*, débiteur) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ .. raw:: latex \newpage Mai 2011 '''''''' +------------+-------------------------------------------------------+------+------------+----------------+-----------------+ | Date | Libellé | Débit| Crédit | Solde débiteur | Solde créditeur | +============+=======================================================+======+============+================+=================+ | 03/05/2011 | Report à nouveau | | | 1485.93 | | +============+=======================================================+======+============+================+=================+ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Solde final calculé (*1485.93*, débiteur) *différent* du solde final attendu (*1461.94*, débiteur) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ .. raw:: latex \newpage
Making invoices
Colbert can assist you to compute invoices, generate TeX/PDF outputs and the Livre-journal entries from them. You start with a JSON file like the one below and use the script colbert_calculer_facture.py to fill it out:
$ cat my_invoice.json { "client": { "nom": "MyClient#1", "adresse": "1, Infinite Loop", "code_postal": "11222", "ville": "Cupertino", "numero_compte": "4111-CL1", "nom_compte": "Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de services", "reference_commande": "XXXXX" }, "numero_facture": "YYYYYYY", "date_facture": "10/05/2011", "nb_jours_payable_fin_de_mois": "60", "taux_penalites": "11", "date_debut_execution": "10/04/2011", "date_fin_execution": "30/04/2011", "devise": "Euro", "symbole_devise": "€", "nom_compte": "Produits - prestations de services", "numero_compte": "706", "detail": [ { "reference": "ref-A", "description": "Prestation A.", "prix_unitaire_ht": "100.00", "unite": "jours", "taux_tva": "19.6", "quantite": "4" }, { "reference": "ref-B", "description": "Prestation B.", "prix_unitaire_ht": "450.99", "unite": "jours", "taux_tva": "19.6", "quantite": "11" } ], "deja_paye": "0.00" } $ colbert_calculer_facture.py my_invoice.json { "date_facture": "10/05/2011", "symbole_devise": "\u20ac", "deja_paye": "0.00", "taux_penalites": "11", "montant_ht": "5360.89", "date_fin_execution": "30/04/2011", "detail": [ { "quantite": "4", "description": "Prestation A.", "reference": "ref-A", "montant_ht": "400.00", "prix_unitaire_ht": "100.00", "unite": "jours", "taux_tva": "19.6" }, { "quantite": "11", "description": "Prestation B.", "reference": "ref-B", "montant_ht": "4960.89", "prix_unitaire_ht": "450.99", "unite": "jours", "taux_tva": "19.6" } ], "numero_facture": "YYYYYYY", "devise": "Euro", "nom_compte": "Produits - prestations de services", "numero_compte": "706", "client": { "ville": "Cupertino", "code_postal": "11222", "nom": "MyClient#1", "adresse": "1, Infinite Loop", "reference_commande": "XXXXX", "nom_compte": "Clients - ventes de biens ou prestations de services", "numero_compte": "4111-CL1" }, "montant_ttc": "6411.62", "date_debut_execution": "10/04/2011", "reste_a_payer": "6411.62", "nb_jours_payable_fin_de_mois": "60", "date_debut_penalites": "01/08/2011", "tva": { "19.6": "1050.73" }, "date_reglement": "31/07/2011" }
You should redirect the output to a new file, say my_invoice_ok.json and use it to generate a LaTeX output:
$ colbert_facture_to_tex.py my_invoice_ok.json my_invoice_template.tex > my_invoice.tex $ xelatex my_invoice.tex
The parameter my_invoice_template.tex is a TeX file having placeholder for Python string formatting with keyword arguments. There is an example of such template in the tests/regressiontests/ folder.
Livre-journal entry
Having an invoice filled-in you can now generate the entry for the Livre-journal:
$ colbert_ecriture_facture.py my_invoice_ok.json > my_invoice_entry.json $ colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal.py --label="Entry to report" my_invoice_entry.json > my_invoice_entry.txt
Workflow
My method is to use a directory for each invoice with the following Makefile in it:
filename = facture-2012-003 filename_calcule = $(filename)_calculee filename_ecriture = $(filename)_ecriture pdf: tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex tex: json @export LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" ; export LC_LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" ; \ colbert_facture_to_tex.py $(filename_calcule).json ../../modele_facture.tex > $(filename).tex json: @colbert_calculer_facture.py $(filename).json > $(filename_calcule).json @colbert_ecriture_facture.py $(filename_calcule).json > $(filename_ecriture).json @colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal.py --label="Ecriture a reporter au Livre-journal" $(filename_ecriture).json > $(filename_ecriture).txt clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tns"; do\ [ -e $(filename)$${ext} ] && rm $(filename)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
Activity report from iCal
There is a template of LaTeX class in the tex directory. Again, I use a Makefile (the same to generate the invoice associated with):
month = Juin month_index = 007 year = 2012 date_debut = 01/06/2012 date_fin = 30/06/2012 ref_facture = $(year)-$(month_index) filename = facture-$(ref_facture) filename_calcule = $(filename)_calculee filename_ecriture = $(filename)_ecriture rac_template = "rapport_activite-template.tex" rac_filename = rac-$(ref_facture) rac_label = "Rapport d'activité - $(month) $(year)" calendar = MyCalendar.ics all: rac_pdf facture_pdf facture_pdf: facture_tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(filename).tex facture_tex: facture_json @export LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" ; export LC_LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" ; colbert_facture_to_tex.py $(filename_calcule).json ../../modele_facture.tex > $(filename).tex facture_json: @colbert_calculer_facture.py $(filename).json > $(filename_calcule).json @colbert_ecriture_facture.py $(filename_calcule).json > $(filename_ecriture).json @colbert_ecritures_to_livre_journal.py --label="Ecriture a reporter au Livre-journal" $(filename_ecriture).json > $(filename_ecriture).txt rac_pdf: rac_tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(rac_filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(rac_filename).tex @xelatex --papersize=a4 $(rac_filename).tex rac_tex: rac_json @colbert_rapport_activite_to_tex.py $(rac_filename).json $(rac_template) > $(rac_filename).tex rac_json: @colbert_rapport_activite.py $(calendar) -d $(date_debut) -f $(date_fin) -l $(rac_label) -r "$(ref_facture)" > $(rac_filename).json purge: clean @for ext in ".tex" ".pdf" ; do\ [ -e $(filename)$${ext} ] && rm $(filename)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ [ -e $(rac_filename)$${ext} ] && rm $(rac_filename)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done clean: @for ext in ".out" ".aux" ".log" ".tns"; do\ [ -e $(filename)$${ext} ] && rm $(filename)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ [ -e $(rac_filename)$${ext} ] && rm $(rac_filename)$${ext} || [ 1 ] ;\ done
You should take a look in the tests/regressiontests directory to grab the LaTeX template.
Working with LaTeX
I convert my reStructuredText files using docutils’ rst2latex.py with the –table-style=booktabs option except for the Livre-journal.
Aside each Makefile in each directory (like TVA or grand-livre) there is a docutils configuration file docutils.conf and a LaTeX stylesheet docutils.tex.
Because I want to right-align some columns and because docutils does not handle that, I process the LaTeX outputs with a bit of Sed before the PDF conversion.
The docutils.conf file
Always the same:
[latex2e writer] documentclass: article documentoptions: 11pt,a4paper,landscape output-encoding: utf-8 stylesheet: docutils.tex
The docutils.tex stylesheet
Almost always:
\usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage{array}
If the LaTeX compiler complains about utf-8 you may add the ucs package.
You may want to precisely control the header and the footer with fancyhdr package:
\usepackage{fancyhdr} \fancyhf{} \pagestyle{fancy} \lhead{\large{MyBusiness S.A.R.L.}\\ \normalsize my address\\ zipcode City} \cfoot{Société à responsabilité limité au capital de XXXX Euros - YYY YYY YYY R.C.S. Paris} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
The Sed script
The idea is to change the table(s) declaration(s) to get columns with managed width and alignment.
In the Makefile it looks like that:
tex: rst @rst2latex.py --table-style=booktabs $(FILENAME).txt > $(FILENAME).tex.tmp @sed -E -f fix_table.sed < $(FILENAME).tex.tmp > $(FILENAME).tex
The Sed script depends of the TeX file. Here an example:
s/\\begin{longtable\*}.*/\\newcolumntype{x}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedleft\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\newcolumntype{y}[1]{% \ >{\\raggedright\\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}% \ \\begin{longtable*}[c]{y{2cm}y{7.5cm}x{2cm}|y{2cm}y{7.5cm}x{2cm}}/ s/\\\\/\\tabularnewline/
And to force the pagestyle for the first one I sometimes add:
s/\\maketitle/\\maketitle\ \\thispagestyle{fancy}/
Installation
Hey, this is a Python package, so just run python setup.py install and you’re done.
(or pip install Colbert)
Tests
There are some regression tests in the test directory.
Requirements
Python 2.6+ ;
pytz ;
Python Icalendar (https://github.com/collective/icalendar) ;
Docutils (SVN) ;
a LaTex suite if you want to render the reStructuredText in PDF ;
Make ;
Sed.
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