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OpenBooks - Accounting software
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Author: Aldrik Ramaekers <aldrik.ramaekers@gmail.com>

The master is hosted on github: https://github.com/aldrik-ramaekers/open-books

All documentation can be found inside the docs folder.

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:

- 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 tax reports and audit files (see supported countries list).

What OpenBooks **can't** do:

- Intrastat reporting
- Sustainability Reporting (CSRD)
- PoS Fiscalization
- Submit tax and audit reports

2. Supported countries
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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.

- **The Netherlands**: Quarterly tax reports, Archiving (Peppol BIS 3.0).

3. Dependencies
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- ImGui 1.92.1 (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)
- simclist 1.5 (https://mij.oltrelinux.com/devel/simclist/)
- ImGuiDatePicker (https://github.com/DnA-IntRicate/ImGuiDatePicker)
- tinyfiledialogs (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyfiledialogs/)