Budget & Expense
The accounting process
When
Use the first and second week to submit reimbursements, do the bookkeeping on the second week’s Thursday afternoon, next time: 2023/08/10
The steps to make monthly record
Excel processing
- Dump the record from Mint to nyuzyt/Personal file/Transactions cvs file
- post credit karma’s acquisition of mint, use creditkarma_export_transactions to download the transactions. Read the instruction.
- remove the previous record files first
- Insert a line in overall sheet prior to the previous record, then
insert the copied cells
- Copy the cvs tables content, without the header
- Create a new sheet for this month alone
- Copy from one previous month’s sheet(all the way to comments), paste the column width
- Copy the records to this month’s sheet
- Remove the Credit Card Payments
- Remove the Loan accounts
- Filter the records by account first
- Check each account, modify the category and mark the transactions as verified
- Copy the reverse ~ Balance columns from one previous month’s table
- List single item takes more than $10,000
Web update
Generate the new hexo post with
hexo new post "Bookkeeping - XXXX/XX"
Copy all content from the post for previous month, git add now(so we know what changed)
Commit the change with title
Add bookkeeping for YYYY/MM
Go to the Table to Markdown website to transform excel tables to markdown tables
Remove the zeroes from sum column
Open the same file to the right window, make it narrow
Add new value to and remove old value from the multi layer pie chart for spending and income
Ask chatgpt to generate the detailed category data
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spending table
取每一行第一个值和第二个值,生成类似
{value:251.69, name:'Restaurants'},
{value:73.15, name:'Cake & Bread'},
的数据Add new value to and remove old value from the trend
Transaction catagories
Category | Section |
---|---|
Restaurants | Food |
Cake & Bread | Food |
Bubble Tea | Food |
Groceries | Food |
Medical | Health |
Dental | Health |
Eyecare | Health |
Pharmacy | Health |
Clothing | Shopping |
Hair & Skin | Shopping |
Home Improvement | Shopping |
China Ecommerce | Shopping |
Electronics | Shopping |
Office | Shopping |
Luxury | Shopping |
Entertainment | Shopping |
Electricity | Utilities |
Gas | Utilities |
Phone Bill | Utilities |
VPN | Utilities |
Legal | Utilities |
Network | Utilities |
Supply | Utilities |
Television | Utilities |
Auto | Utilities |
Mortgage | Mortgage & Rent |
HOA | Mortgage & Rent |
Air | Travel |
Ride Share/Car Rental | Travel |
Hotel | Travel |
Ticket | Travel |
Souvenir | Travel |
Travel Misc | Travel |
IRA | Investment |
Stock | Investment |
Cash & ATM | Misc |
Transfer | Income/Misc |
Shipping | Misc |
Annual | Misc |
Visa | Misc |
Bank Fee | Misc |
Paycheck | Income |
Federal Tax | Income/Misc |
State Tax | Income/Misc |
Deposit | Income |