Interactive Expenses Report

Create an HTML report of your expenses from a set of expenses/income stored in a CSV file. The expected structure is the default export of the app [Money Manager]. Although the app is good at tracking expenses as it can be done quickly at any time, I don't like the data visualization or is not helpful enough.

This project aims to create some graphs from that data which can give you a better overview where are you spending your money.

The goal is to have a single file self contained which has enough information to make some decisions.

A complete report example can be found in the example folder.

Data structure

The expected input has to be stored as a .csv file inside the input folder with the following format:

"Date";"Description";"Value";"Account";"Category";"Subcategory";"Tags"
"dd/mm/yyyy";"My expense name";"-xxx.xx";"Wallet";"category name";"subcategory name";" (currently not used)"
"dd/mm/yyyy";"My income name";"xxx.xx";"Wallet";"category name";"subcategory name";" (currently not used)"

Note that the differentiation between of incomes and expenses is only done by the sign of the value. Date, Note, Amount, Income/Expense, and Category are mandatory fields.

• Date: Date. Date in the format %m/%d/%Y.
• Amount: Float.
• Income/Expense: Possible values EXPENSE or INCOME.
• Account: Not used.
• Tags: Not used.
• Description: Ma,e pf the transaction.
• category: String. Name of the category of an income/expense.
• subcategory: String Name of the subcategory of an income/expense within a category. Not mandatory.

Prerequisites

No docker

• python 3.10 should be installed, although 3.9 may work it has not been tested.

Docker

• Docker is installed.

Installation

No Docker

1. Clone the project or download the last release.

2. Is recommended to use a virtual environment:

   pip install virtualenv
   python -m virtualenv .venv
   .\.venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the python dependencies

   python -m pip install --upgrade pip
   pip install -r requirements.txt

Docker installation

• No installation is required.

Usage

Docker usage

1. You can make use of the docker-compose.yaml provided.
2. Place your expenses .csv files in the input folder.
3. Start the docker compose with docker-compose up.
4. The report shall be generated in the output folder.

No docker usage

1. Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Place the expenses csv files inside the input folder.

3. Execute the interactive_expenses_report.py script with:

   python .\interactive_expenses_report.py

4. The report will appear generated with the current date in the output folder.

Settings

The settings that could be changed like currency or the report title can be changed in the settings.py file. This is currently only supported in the non docker mode.

Development

1. Create docker images:

   1. Build the docker image with

      docker build --tag interactive-expenses-report:x.y.z .

   2. Create the tags:

      docker tag interactive-expenses-report:x.y.z nck974/interactive-expenses-report:xyz
      docker tag interactive-expenses-report:x.y.z nck974/interactive-expenses-report:latest

   3. Push the images to the registry:

      docker push nck974/interactive-expenses-report:x.y.z
      docker push nck974/interactive-expenses-report:latest

Support

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