% Finance

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Simon Michael operates the "plaintextaccounting" organisation (together with contributors and moderators),
providing plaintextaccounting.org and forum.plaintextaccounting.org,
managed matrix rooms/space and IRC channel, support, outreach etc.
SM also acts as CFO and fiscal host.
For more background, see [PTA forum news, 2024-03-18](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/pta-forum-news-2024-03-18/207)
and [A trial of Discourse for Plain Text Accounting discussions](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/a-trial-of-discourse-for-plain-text-accounting-discussions/5).

I want this organisation to be solvent and self-sustaining,
so if you find this work useful, and you are in a position to help financially, your support is much appreciated!

- **To help cover project costs like hosting, donate here;**\
  These are tracked (anonymised) in the public ledger below.
  Any surplus will be used as judged best by the CFO, eg to build up a future-proofing reserve or to fund PTA-related work in future.
  - Support PTA via Github: [![Github sponsor PTA](https://img.shields.io/badge/Github_sponsor-PTA-limegreen "Github sponsor PTA")](https://github.com/sponsors/plaintextaccounting)
  - <div id="paypal-pta-button">Support PTA via Paypal:</div>

- **To support the core workers, donate privately here:**\
  - Support Simon via Github: [![Github sponsor Simon](https://img.shields.io/badge/Github_sponsor-Simon-limegreen "Github sponsor Simon")](https://github.com/sponsors/simonmichael)
    (I won't know this is for PTA work, feel free to [let me know](index.html#news-discussion))
  - <div id="paypal-sm-button">Support Simon via Paypal:</div>
  - Support moderators: later when they have something to do

Github charges 0% fees for personal accounts, [3-6% fees](https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/receiving-sponsorships-through-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors-for-open-source-contributors#sponsorship-payouts) for organization accounts.\
Paypal charges ~3% fees.

To all funders: thank you in advance!

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## General Journal
(<a href="https://github.com/plaintextaccounting/plaintextaccounting/blob/master/finance/pta.journal">source</a>)
```hledger
2024-03-30 begin tracking finances of the plaintextaccounting org.

2024-03-30 Discourse | begin $50/mo hosting at Discourse, with an advance from SM
    ; discussion: https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/-/5
    expenses:hosting          50 USD
    liabilities:sm           -50 USD

2024-04-11 sponsor1 | one-time donation, used immediately
    revenues:github         -25 USD
    liabilities:sm           25 USD

```
