Trial Balance

mcp-cash-book

In the official MCP Registry (io.github.theluckystrike/cash-book). One double-entry ledger over the books you already keep. It reads your invoices, credit notes, purchase orders, deposits, expenses, bank import and fixed asset register, and derives a debit and a credit for every movement in a period: revenue and VAT output from the invoices, receivables and the payments that clear them, deposits held as the liability they are, expenses by category with the VAT taken out of the gross, fixed assets and their monthly depreciation. It proves the trial balance sums to zero to the minor unit, and when it does not it names the document whose own figures do not add up. It writes nothing back into any of those books, and there is no way to type an entry into it: every line carries the server, the document id and the date it came from, so any figure can be walked back to the page it was printed on.

npm publish for @theluckystrike/mcp-cash-book is pending, so npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-cash-book returns 404 today. Until then, the .mcpb one-click bundle or a clone+build is the working path.

Install

Claude Desktop, ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json):

{  "mcpServers": {    "cash-book": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-cash-book"]    }  }}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add cash-book -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-cash-book

Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project), same entry as Claude Desktop.

This server is only useful next to the servers that own the books: mcp-invoice, mcp-billing-docs, mcp-deposits, mcp-expense-tracker, mcp-bank-statement and mcp-asset-register. Every one of them is optional. A store that is not installed is simply absent from the ledger; a store that is installed and unreadable is reported as unreadable, and never read as an empty one.

Tools

Accounts: cash, receivables, revenue, vat_output, vat_input, expenses:<category>, deposits_held, fixed_assets, accumulated_depreciation, depreciation_expense, and purchase_commitments as a memo that is never posted.

Free vs Pro

The trial balance is free because it is the only question this server exists to answer. A bookkeeper who cannot check that the books add up has no reason to trust anything else here.

ledger_lines already returns every field ledger_export_csv does, bank_ref included: the export is a formatting convenience, an RFC 4180 file with those same fields as columns, not new data. Round 29 (data/user_value_r29.json, prompt 6) measured a model take the Pro refusal on ledger_export_csv correctly, then hand-build a substitute CSV from ledger_lines and drop bank_ref anyway. The gate text now says this plainly, so a client relays ledger_lines instead of reassembling one.

Get Pro: https://mcp.zovo.one/buy/cash-book (one-time, lifetime, verified offline).

The measured insight

On the worked month in test/_client.mjs, four of the five bank rows are the same money as a document that was already posted: 1,375,300 of the 1,380,300 minor units of cash movement, 99.6 percent, appear in both books. Posting the bank import as well as the documents, which is the obvious way to build a cash book and the way most spreadsheets do it, moves the cash balance from -10,543.00 to -21,111.00 EUR. It does not look wrong. Every line is individually plausible, the account is off by almost exactly a factor of two, and the trial balance still comes to zero, because each duplicated receipt brought its own contra with it.

So the bank import posts nothing here. It is matched to the posted cash movements as evidence, and the leftovers are the whole point: on that month exactly 7,500 minor units of the bank total, one unexplained withdrawal, is information the documents did not already have. That is the 0.4 percent worth importing a statement for, and it is the part a duplicate-heavy ledger buries.

Privacy

All data stays on your machine. The ledger is derived on each call from the sibling servers' own data directories under ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/mcp-servers/, and this server writes only its own cash-book/periods.json and cash-book/closes.json. There is no network call anywhere in src, and no telemetry. License keys are verified offline.

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Use these docs as an MCP server

Any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code) can read this repository's documentation directly via GitMCP - no install:

• Docs MCP URL: https://gitmcp.io/theluckystrike/mcp-cash-book