A lightweight World of Warcraft addon that tracks your incoming and outgoing gold by source across multiple time ranges (Session, Day, Week, Month, Year, Total). It provides a clear breakdown table, character summaries, and quality-of-life features.

• Addon folder: Accountant_Classic/
• Core code: Core/
• In-game textures: Images/
• Documentation and screenshots: Docs/

• Money tracking by source: Merchant, Repairs, Taxi, Trainer, Auction House, Mail, Quest, Loot, and more.
• Time windows: Session, Today, This Week, This Month, This Year, and their previous periods, plus Total.
• All Characters tab: cross-realm, cross-faction overview with sorting.
• Minimap/LDB button with configurable display.
• Zone-level breakdown (optional) for where the money was earned/spent.
• Localization support.

• The addon listens to WoW UI events to determine the current "context" (category). For example, MERCHANT_SHOW sets the category to MERCH, TAXIMAP_OPENED sets TAXI, etc. See Core/Constants.lua for the full list.
• On every balance change (PLAYER_MONEY), it computes the delta and attributes it to the current context. See updateLog() in Core/Core.lua.
• Group/party shared loot uses CHAT_MSG_MONEY to parse the exact amount and force a single categorized update while preventing double counting. See AccountantClassic_OnShareMoney() in Core/Core.lua.
• The UI table is rendered by AccountantClassic_OnShow() in Core/Core.lua, which reads the saved totals and formats the rows/columns.

To avoid counting your initial balance as income on a fresh profile/session, a one-time baseline priming is performed the first time we observe money (via PLAYER_MONEY or CHAT_MSG_MONEY). This sets the session baseline and then normal logging proceeds. A one-time colored chat message confirms priming.

1. Close the WoW client.
2. Copy the Accountant_Classic folder into your WoW AddOns directory:
   • Retail: _retail_/Interface/AddOns/
   • Classic Era/Hardcore/SoD: _classic_/Interface/AddOns/
   • Wrath Classic / Cata Classic: _classic_*/Interface/AddOns/
3. Launch the game and enable the addon on the character selection screen.

• Open the main window:
  • Slash command: /accountant or /acc
  • Left-click the minimap/Databroker button
• Options:
  • Right-click the minimap/Databroker button, or use the Interface Options.
• Tabs at the bottom switch the time window (Session, Today, This Week, etc.).
• The header shows totals; the grid shows money In/Out by source.

The project includes both UI textures (for in-game frames/buttons) and real screenshots. For README purposes, the screenshots below are more illustrative; textures are shown separately.

• This Week — Source Breakdown
  

• Totals
  

• This Week — Totals
  

These are addon art assets (BLP). Shown here for completeness.

• Button Up
  Images/AccountantClassicButton-Up.blp

• Button Down
  Images/AccountantClassicButton-Down.blp

• Frame Left
  Images/AccountantClassicFrame-Left.blp

• Frame Right
  Images/AccountantClassicFrame-Right.blp

Note: GitHub may not preview BLP files. They are referenced by the addon in-game.

• Character data is saved under Accountant_ClassicSaveData (per realm/character) and Accountant_ClassicZoneDB (optional zone breakdown).
• Money is summed into In and Out buckets per source and per time window.

• WoW Classic/Seasonal branches and Retail (feature coverage varies by client).
• Lua 5.1 runtime, ACE3-based addon framework.

• Locales live under Locale/.
• Contributions for language updates are welcome.

• Pull requests welcome for bug fixes, UI improvements, and localizations.
• Please do not commit third-party libraries; they live under Libs/.

Planned features and ideas (including tracking all in-game currencies beyond gold) are documented in the project roadmap:

• See Docs/ROADMAP.md for details.

• Original Author(s): Sabaki, Shadow, Rophy
• Maintainers/Updates: Arith, kamusis
• Thanks: Testers and community contributors

• See the header of Core/Core.lua for a historical changelog. Notable recent changes:
  • Priming Approach (one-time baseline) to avoid first-session skew
  • Guarded CHAT_MSG_MONEY priming & one-time chat alert
  • Minor lint hardening and inline documentation