account <id> <name> [ <type> ]

account <id> <name> [ <type> ]
Description

Declares an account. Accounts can be used to calculate costs of tasks or the whole project. Account declaration may be nested, but only the top level accounts may have a type attribute specified. An account that has sub-accounts may not have a credit. sub-accounts inherit this type.

AttributesNameTypeDescription
idID

Each account must have a unique ID.

nameSTRING 
typeID

The type may be cost or revenue.

Optional Attributesaccount, credit
ContextThe TJP File, account,
InheritableNoScenario Spec.No
See alsocsvaccountreport, htmlaccountreport

project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26 {
  currency "USD"
}

account project_cost "Project Costs" cost
account payments "Customer Payments" revenue {
  credit 2005-06-08 "Customer down payment" 500.0
}

resource tux "Tux" {
  rate 300
}

task items "Project breakdown" {
  start 2005-06-06
  # The default account for all tasks
  account project_cost

  task plan "Plan work" {
    # Some upfront material cost
    startcredit 500.0
    length 3d
  }

  task implementation "Implement work" {
    effort 5d
    allocate tux
    depends !plan
  }

  task acceptance "Customer acceptance" {
    duration 5d
    depends !implementation
    account payments
    # Customer pays at end of acceptance  
    endcredit 2000.0  
  }
}

htmlaccountreport "PAndL.html" {
  timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
  accumulate
  columns index, name, weekly
}