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+OpenBooks - Accounting software
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+Author: Aldrik Ramaekers <aldrik.ramaekers@gmail.com>
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+The master is hosted on github: https://github.com/aldrik-ramaekers/open-books
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+All documentation can be found inside the docs folder.
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+1. Introduction
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+OpenBooks is a simple and portable accounting tool. This tool aims to be EU VAT Directive compliant and has country specific compliance, invoice keeping and tax reporting.
+
+What OpenBooks **can** do:
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+- OpenBooks handles administration of invoices, expenses, receipts, contacts, projects, VAT rates and cost centers. 
+- OpenBooks can export/email invoices in PDF, UBL and Peppol format.
+- OpenBooks can send and receive invoices over the Peppol network (using a locally run `Holodeck <https://holodeck-b2b.org/>`_ instance).
+- OpenBooks can create country specific tax reports and audit files (see supported countries list).
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+What OpenBooks **can't** do:
+
+- Intrastat reporting
+- Sustainability Reporting (CSRD)
+- PoS Fiscalization
+- Submit tax and audit reports
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+2. Supported countries
+----------------------
+This section lists all country specific implementations to be compliant. If the country you operate from is not listed below, some reporting requirements might not be handled by OpenBooks.
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+- **The Netherlands**: Quarterly tax reports, Archiving (Peppol BIS 3.0).
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+3. Dependencies
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+- ImGui 1.92.1
+- simclist 1.5
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