#plain-text-accounting
Discover the power of version-controlled, human-readable financial records
Lululemon FY2026 Q2: net revenue $2.416B (−4%), comparable sales −9% with Americas at −12%, and net income $329M (−11%). The 60.5% gross margin includes 560 basis points from $134.5M of IEEPA tariff refunds, inventories sit at $1,711M near the cycle high, and full-year guidance was cut to $10.35–10.5B — all tracked in a public Beancount ledger spanning FY2021–FY2026Q2.
Medtronic Q1 FY2027: $9.756B revenue (+13.7%), GAAP net income $1.470B, EPS $1.14, Cardiac Ablation +88%, and a raised FY27 guide — tracked in a public Beancount ledger that keeps the real 14-week period end and states the release’s ~$570M extra-week estimate.
Oracle FY2027 Q1: $19.3B revenue (+30%), IaaS up 121% to $7.4B, RPO up $26B sequentially to $664B, capex $28.5B with free cash flow of −$5.4B, and a $20B ATM equity raise — tracked in a public Beancount ledger where deferred revenue is asserted at $14.7B.
Salesforce FY2027 Q2: $11.3B revenue (+11%) with a stated $456M Informatica contribution, GAAP diluted EPS $4.29 (+119%) driven by $2.6B of strategic-investment gains over flat $2.33B operating income, and a $25B accelerated share repurchase that cut stockholders' equity by $20.8B — tracked in a public Beancount ledger asserting goodwill at $59.3B and treasury stock at $55.0B.
TJX FY2027 Q2: net sales $15.18B (+5%), consolidated comps +4% above plan, and net income $1.52B. Reported pretax margin of 13.3% includes a 1.4-point net IEEPA tariff-refund benefit ($331M refunds less $112M compensation accruals); adjusted pretax margin is 11.9%, up 0.5 points, and adjusted diluted EPS is $1.22 versus $1.36 reported. Cash ended at $6.0B, inventories at $7.86B with per-store +2% — all tracked in a public Beancount ledger spanning FY2022–FY2027Q2.
Install the bea CLI with two commands, hand your existing AI agent its first bookkeeping task, and verify the 987.50 USD result — then reproduce the three-row challenge that one recorded agent run checked at 2958.50 USD.
A bookkeeping guide for mobile silent disco operators — chart of accounts for a $114,000 headphone fleet, Section 179 vs. bonus vs. MACRS depreciation, why rental deposits and ticket presales are liabilities rather than revenue, per-channel costing for corporate, dry-hire, and ticketed events, and the weekly fleet counts that control shrinkage.
A three-way match compares the purchase order, receiving record, and supplier invoice before any payment is released, catching duplicate bills, unapproved price increases, and short shipments. This guide shows small businesses how to implement the control with clear ownership, line-level matching, written tolerances, and a practical exception workflow — plus when a two-way match is the better fit.
How to govern AI bookkeeping with a four-level permission ladder — read-only analysis, draft recommendations, low-risk auto-posting, and human-approved external actions — plus an approval matrix, evidence-chain requirements, output testing against real failure modes, and a 30-day implementation plan.
Lowe's posted $25.96B in Q2 FY2026 revenue, up 8.3%, but net earnings were flat at $2.40B and operating margin fell 81 basis points. Acquired businesses supplied about 90% of the sales increase while Retail Home Improvement grew just 0.8% and comparable sales rose 0.2% — the full income statement and balance sheet reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.
MiniMax reported $116.6M of H1 2026 revenue, up 283.1% and more than its entire FY2025 result, as Open Platform revenue grew 703.1% to become 63.4% of the mix. IFRS net loss narrowed 11% to $358.0M only because fair-value charges on pre-IPO preferred shares fell $222.9M; adjusted net loss more than doubled to $293.0M as R&D reached $296.9M — twice the incremental revenue — while the January listing converted a $3.6B preferred-share liability into $1.35B of positive equity. The full income statement and balance sheet are reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.
Starbucks reported $9.32B of Q3 FY2026 revenue, down 1.4%, while global comparable-store sales rose 7.9% and net earnings nearly doubled to $1.05B. Moving China retail into a licensed joint venture removed roughly $780M of consolidated revenue, and a $536.3M divestiture gain accounted for more than the entire year-over-year increase in net income — the full income statement and balance sheet reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.
