Accounting Features

Financial Reports

Generate and retrieve financial reports with Open Ledger.

Open Ledger provides a sophisticated reporting feature that allows businesses to generate essential financial reports and leverage artificial intelligence to produce custom documents based on specific prompts. This enables insightful and predictive financial analysis.

Available Financial Reports

Open Ledger supports several types of financial reports, including standard reports and custom AI-generated documents:

  • Balance Sheets: Snapshot of the company’s financial position at a specific date.
  • Income Statement: Detailed account of revenues, costs, and expenses over a period.
  • Cash Flow Statement: Analysis of cash inflows and outflows during a specific timeframe.
  • Custom AI-Generated Reports: Customized reports generated using AI based on user-defined prompts for in-depth analysis.

Balance Sheet

Generates a balance sheet for the specified date and company.

Request
$POST company/{company_id}/reports/balance-sheet
>Content-Type: application/json
>Authorization: Bearer {access_token}
>
>{
>  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
>  "end_date": "2024-12-31"
>}
Response
1{
2  "report_id": "bs-123456",
3  "report_type": "balance_sheet",
4  "company_id": "company_123",
5  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
6  "end_date": "2024-12-31",
7  "generated_at": "2024-01-02T12:00:00Z",
8  "download_url": "https://api.openledger.com/reports/bs-123456.pdf"
9}

Income Statement

Retrieves a profit and loss statement for a defined period for the specified company.

Request
$POST company/{company_id}/reports/profit-loss
>Content-Type: application/json
>Authorization: Bearer {access_token}
>
>{
>  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
>  "end_date": "2024-12-31"
>}
Response
1{
2  "report_id": "pl-789012",
3  "report_type": "profit_and_loss",
4  "company_id": "company_123",
5  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
6  "end_date": "2024-12-31",
7  "generated_at": "2024-01-02T12:05:00Z",
8  "download_url": "https://api.openledger.com/reports/pl-789012.pdf"
9}

Cash Flow Statement

Produces a cash flow statement by comparing two periods for the selected company.

Request
$POST company/{company_id}/reports/cash-flow
>Content-Type: application/json
>Authorization: Bearer {access_token}
>
>{
>  "current_period_start": "2024-01-01",
>  "current_period_end": "2024-06-30",
>  "previous_period_start": "2023-01-01",
>  "previous_period_end": "2023-06-30"
>}
Response
1{
2  "report_id": "cf-345678",
3  "report_type": "cash_flow",
4  "company_id": "company_123",
5  "current_period_start": "2024-01-01",
6  "current_period_end": "2024-06-30",
7  "previous_period_start": "2023-01-01",
8  "previous_period_end": "2023-06-30",
9  "generated_at": "2024-01-02T12:10:00Z",
10  "download_url": "https://api.openledger.com/reports/cf-345678.pdf"
11}

Custom AI-Generated Report

Creates a custom report using AI based on a user-defined prompt.

Request
$POST company/{company_id}/reports/custom-ai
>Content-Type: application/json
>Authorization: Bearer {access_token}
>
>{
>  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
>  "end_date": "2024-12-31",
>  "prompt": "Provide a 12-month revenue forecast based on current trends and seasonal adjustments."
>}
Response
1{
2  "report_id": "ai-901234",
3  "report_type": "custom_ai",
4  "company_id": "company_123",
5  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
6  "end_date": "2024-12-31",
7  "prompt": "Provide a 12-month revenue forecast based on current trends and seasonal adjustments.",
8  "generated_at": "2024-01-02T12:15:00Z",
9  "download_url": "https://api.openledger.com/reports/ai-901234.pdf"
10}

Retrieving Reports

Access previously generated reports using the following endpoint and the unique identifier:

Request
$GET /reports/{report_id}
>Authorization: Bearer {access_token}
Response
1{
2  "report_id": "report_id",
3  "report_type": "balance_sheet|profit_and_loss|cash_flow|custom_ai",
4  "company_id": "company_123",
5  "generated_at": "2024-01-02T12:00:00Z",
6  "download_url": "https://api.openledger.com/reports/report_id.pdf"
7  // Additional fields depending on the report type
8}