accounting

accounting is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to bookkeeping and financial operations for a bootstrapped business. Bookkeeping means recording income, expenses, payments, receipts, and other transactions so the business has reliable financial records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up financial records, track revenue and expenses, organize receipts, prepare for taxes, and handle accounting issues such as SaaS revenue recognition.
Why use it?
It helps prevent mixed personal and business finances, missed deductions, tax problems, and confusion about when payments count as revenue. It also explains when accounting software or professional help may be needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

not rated 243repo +1 16d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 63 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to set up financial records, track revenue and expenses, organize receipts, prepare for taxes, and handle accounting issues such as SaaS revenue recognition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/accounting
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill accounting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 8 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00063 $0.02265
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01132
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00227

Measured 13d ago against content hash c6dc704a4339, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accounting scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/accounting/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accounting & Bookkeeping

Messy books cost you money in taxes, missed deductions, and accountant fees. This skill helps you set up clean financial tracking from day one — 30 minutes a week keeps you legal, informed, and out of trouble.

Core Principles

  • Bookkeeping is not optional. Messy books cost you money in taxes, missed deductions, and accountant fees.
  • Separate business and personal finances completely. Day one. No exceptions.
  • SaaS revenue recognition has rules. Stripe payments are not the same as "revenue" for accounting purposes.
  • You don't need a full-time accountant until $50k+ ARR. But you do need a system from day one.
  • 30 minutes a week keeps your books clean. 30 hours in April fixes what you ignored all year.

Getting Started: Financial Foundation

Day 1 Checklist

Before your first dollar of revenue:
- [ ] Open a separate business bank account (checking)
- [ ] Get a business credit card (or dedicated personal card for business only)
- [ ] Set up accounting software (see recommendations below)
- [ ] Create a simple chart of accounts
- [ ] Set up Stripe (or payment processor) to deposit to business account
- [ ] Save a folder for receipts (digital — Google Drive, Dropbox, or in your accounting tool)
- [ ] Note your fiscal year start date (usually Jan 1 for calendar year)

Separate Your Finances

Why it matters:

  • Legal protection (LLC/corp separation requires it)
  • Tax deductions are easy to prove with clean records
  • Makes tax prep 10x faster and cheaper
  • Investors and lenders need clean books

How:

  • Business bank account (Mercury, Relay, or any bank with no/low fees)
  • Business credit card (Ramp, Brex, or a separate personal card dedicated to business)
  • Never pay personal expenses from business accounts
  • Never pay business expenses from personal accounts
  • If you must (emergency), document it as an owner draw/contribution

Accounting Software

Recommendations by Stage

Stage Tool Cost Why
Pre-revenue Spreadsheet Free Don't over-invest before revenue
$0-5k MRR Wave Free Full accounting, free, good for solo
$0-10k MRR QuickBooks Self-Employed $15/mo Simple, widely supported by accountants
$5k-50k MRR QuickBooks Online $30+/mo Standard. Every accountant knows it
$5k-50k MRR Xero $15+/mo Clean UI, good for SaaS
Any stage Bench $299+/mo Done-for-you bookkeeping service

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 274 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c6dc704a4339

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accounting is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,265 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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