Christopher Browne writes:
> You seem to be taking the value judgement that a negative balance in the
> income account is somehow a Bad Thing.
I don't think it is so much a bad thing as a confusing one. I think users
would scratch their heads in bafflement over negative income (or negative
assets).
> The fact that you seem to think that "negative income" is somehow a bad
> thing strengthens my sense that it would be better to have an
> unambiguous, "philosophically value-free" representation like
> debits/credits where the notion that "negative is bad" is clearly
> nonsense since there _are_ no negatives.
Yes, exactly.
> The need to both calculate and indicate "backwardsness" is a disturbing
> result, adding to the complexity of the system.
Yes.
> Do most people want negative assets? Because that is the implication of
> making income positive.
Unless you do selective sign reversal, which I agree would be best avoided.
It appears that we agree that T account notation would be best: we need not
try to conserve paper and ink.
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