Plain-text accounting insights, tutorials, and updates from the Beancount.io team.
Set least-privilege access, human approval gates on money movement, and an audit trail that links each action to its evidence before an AI assistant creates financial drafts, changes records, or touches a payment workflow.
H.R. 1319, the Modern Worker Empowerment Act, would replace the DOL's six-factor economic reality test with a single common-law standard for worker classification under both the FLSA and NLRA, centered on two prongs — control over the work and entrepreneurial opportunity — while explicitly excluding safety rules and project deadlines as evidence of control. Here's how it compares to the ABC test, what it wouldn't change, and the contractor bookkeeping checklist to run while the bill is pending.
Beancount.io's cash-flow report now reads account classifications straight from cash-flow-role metadata on open directives — one key, four values (cash, operating, investing, financing), version-controlled with your books, with the familiar heuristics as fallback.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (Public Law 119-101, enacted July 11, 2026) bans institutional investors controlling 350+ single-family homes from buying more, with exceptions for build-to-rent, renovate-to-rent rehabs costing at least 15% of purchase price, and rent-to-own programs. Here is how the thresholds, exceptions, and a two-year grace window affect small landlords and property managers — and the ownership-count and job-cost records to set up now.
Oracle's FY2026 Q4 shows $19.2B revenue but just $5.8B in cloud infrastructure, against $638B RPO.
NVIDIA's Q2 FY2027 revenue reached $96.2B (+106% YoY) on $59.7B of net income, yet operating cash flow fell 52% sequentially to $24.1B — accounts receivable rose $22.3B and DSO went from 45 to 60 days on extended payment terms. In the same quarter NVIDIA issued $25B of debt, returned $26B to shareholders, and disclosed guarantees of up to $105B for a single data-center campus. Full cash-flow bridge, balance sheet and FY2024–Q2 FY2027 history in a public Beancount ledger.
Nike's FY2026 Q4 gross margin rose 890 basis points to 49.2%, but $0.52 of the $0.72 diluted EPS came from expected IEEPA tariff recovery — the full-year ledger shows flat $46.4B revenue and $3.1B net income. Traced line by line in a public Beancount ledger covering FY2021 through FY2026.
FedEx's Q4 and full-year FY2026 print: $25.0B quarterly / $94.7B annual revenue, $4.43B net income, operating margin 5.8%, and more than $1B of transformation savings — with the June 1, 2026 Freight spin-off modeled in a public Beancount ledger covering FY2021–FY2026.
Visa's Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) merges TC40 fraud reports and TC15 disputes into one ratio, and the 2026 merchant "excessive" threshold dropped to 0.9%. This guide shows exactly how the ratio is calculated and gives small merchants a prevention and gross-to-net bookkeeping playbook to stay under it.
The 2026 IRS business mileage rate is 72.5 cents January–June and 76 cents July–December. This guide compares the standard mileage and actual expense methods, explains the year-one lock-in rules and five-vehicle fleet restriction, and details the five-element log an audit requires.
SBA's June 11 proposed rule and August 11 final rule eliminate the rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage for 8(a) applicants. Learn the new three-actor test, who it affects, the September 10 effective date for pending applications, and the DCAA-ready bookkeeping controls you need before your first set-aside award.
A $50,000 advance at 1.30x costs $15,000 either way — but repaid over 20 months at 8% of revenue it annualizes near 18%, while the same fee via $400 daily debits over 7 months behaves like 80%+ APR. Learn how to convert factor rates to comparable APRs, when RBF vs. MCA fits, and the liability and processor-reconciliation entries that keep your books honest.
