This project is a double-entry bookkeeping application for Django. It has been tested with Django release 2.0.

In order to use this application in your Django project, you need to do the following:

1. Install django-mptt.

2. Download this application and extract the django-financial-accounting/accounting directory into your project's base directory or into any location included in your Python module search path.

3. Include mptt and accounting in the INSTALLED_APPS list in your project's settings.py.

4. Include accounting.urls in the urlpatterns list in your project's urls.py, for example as follows:

   path('accounting/', include('accounting.urls'))

5. Run ./manage.py migrate to update the database schema.

6. If your organization's fiscal year differs from the calendar year, create an appropriate object for the current fiscal year, defining the start and end dates.

7. Create suitable journals and the chart of accounts e.g. by

   • using the Django admin application, or
   • extracting sample-fixtures.yaml from the package downloaded in step 2, installing PyYAML, and running ./manage.py loaddata sample-fixtures.yaml.

After these steps, you are ready to start entering transactions to the ledger. This can be done from the admin application or programmatically, e.g. as follows:

from accounting.models import *

txn = Transaction.objects.create(
    journal=Journal.objects.get(code='C'),
    description='Share issue'
)

txn.transactionitem_set.create(
    account=Account.objects.get(code='1100'),
    amount=-10000
)

txn.transactionitem_set.create(
    account=Account.objects.get(code='3100'),
    amount=10000
)

txn.commit()