System for Associating Financial Transaction Data with User's Project Data

An expense reporting system for viewing and manipulating a user's financial transaction data, comprising:

• a user's financial transaction data hosted in a data storage unit, addressable on a network, and accessible by a remote user on a user interface unit having a user input means and a display;
• an expense reporting module having a graphical user interface (GUI), the expense reporting module comprising:
• a transaction retrieval component operable to access the user's financial transaction data and generate representations thereof viewable by a user on the user interface unit display;
• a category generation engine operable to generate user-defined project category data and representations thereof viewable to a user on the user interface unit display;
• a transaction categorization engine operable to associate selected ones of the user's financial transaction data representations with one or more of the user-defined project category data representations;
• a GUI generation engine operable to express a graphical arrangement of the selected ones of the user's financial transaction representations associated with the one or more user-defined project category data representations on the user interface unit display;
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• a data record generation engine operable to convert the graphical arrangement into a data record, wherein the data record is in a form suitable for at least one of review, storage, modification analysis, or exportation.