account for 2016-12

[chadwhitacre]

Here you go, @kaguillera. :)

Let's see if we can get back on track with our original Ledger-based system as currently described in the README:

https://github.com/gratipay/finances#readme

[kaguillera]

Present and accounted for...will start on that now.

[chadwhitacre]

@kaguillera I've invited you as an "occasional agent" in Freshdesk with agent-level access to the Vendors group. That should give you the access you need to receive and process receipts. 👍

[kaguillera]

ok

[chadwhitacre]

@kaguillera I started a script in 828840f to spit out Ledger-formatted entries from a CSV. I think actually what we want is a script to take info for an individual entry on the command line and spit out a single entry for Ledger, and then additional scripts that use the one-off script for multiple entries as needed.

[chadwhitacre]

Let's pick up with that in #19, though ...

[chadwhitacre]

Actually, back here.

@kaguillera and I talked this through IRL. The plan at this point is to make a new PR on which to develop a record-expense script to record single expenses. We'll leave #19 for later when we're ready to revisit #3 (entering new expenses should be only a few at a time, easy enough to do one at a time from the command line; entering old expenses will want to come from CSVs from bank statements). We'll rebase this PR on the new PR with the expense recording script, and develop the two together over the course of the month. Our aim will be to merge them both in January.

[nobodxbodon]

As #35 is ongoing, how about only exporting the raw records to csv as a temporary output in this PR, and inputing in Beancount format in another effort after #35 is finished and Beancount/fava deployed?

[chadwhitacre]

@nobodxbodon We already have a process to export bank data, which includes CSV.