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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:28:50AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> Addresses have vcard, ToDo lists have vTodo, Appointments have
> vCalendar (amongst others).
>
> What could be conceived as a "standard format for expenses"?
>
Anything to get away from QIF
> Basically, needs to include:
> 1. Amount (a simple number, independent of currency)
> 2. Currency (standardised ID that references a fixed table of symbols,
> fractions, mnemonics, formatting and currency code suitable for
> retrieval of currency conversion rates).
You need two sorts of variants:
- Currency which is the ISO currency derivation
- What the display is (eg is it xx,xxx,xxx.xx or is it xx.xxx.xxx,xx.
Similarly what the date fields are YYMMDD or MMDDYY etc etc) Unless
this information is obtained from elsewhere
> 3. Date (timestamp)
> 4. form of payment (visa, prepaid, cash, etc.)
Presumably this would depend on the format. Would this not be a string?
> 5. Vendor (string)
> 6. City/Location (string)
> 7. Note (long string)
> 8. Mileage unit (because lots of expenses are actually mileage claims)
> 9. Category ("Business", "Personal", "Family" etc.)
>
>
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Henry
Sun Oct 8 13:56:00 BST 2006
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