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Re:Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph by t_mann on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:55PM (#39995607)
Yeah, best not to think of any semantics wrt to the words debit and credit. Debit is left-hand side, credit is right-hand side, and just remember the rules how they work :)
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Re:Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph by omichowdhury on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:17AM (#40021704)
Haha that sounds like shut-up-and-calculate to me. The alternative is to update the rules to use our intuition on whether the action we’re tracking is good or bad for us and map that to increasing or decreasing balances that represent what we own, owe, earn and spend.

More deets here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40021506

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