> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Gribble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:09 PM
> To: Buddha Buck
> Cc: 'Richard Wackerbarth'; 'Herbert Thoma';
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: question: What is a JE?
>
>
> Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I tend to think of "Journal Entries" as being like GnuCash
> "transactions"
> > (i.e., a collection of splits that are related and balance).
>
> That's not the way Linas defined it or uses it. In his nomenclature,
> a journal entry is a split. Every transaction must have at least two
> journal entries.
I know that.
In context, I was saying that using JE the way Linas defines it can still be
confusing. His definition is fine, if clear. And in a GnuCash context, I
understand it. But it isn't the only reasonable meaning for "Journal
Entry".
For instance,
When I write in a journal something like the following:
4/31/00.100 Daily cash receipts
A10000 Cash - Fred's Bank $1000
I10000 Retail Sales $ 900
L23010 Sales Tax Collected $ 100
That is what I would call a "Journal Entry". It is a single
entry in the daily journal. I would write something like
so in the A10000 Cash ledger:
4/21/00.100 Daily cash receipts $1000
and call it a "ledger entry".
Linas used to call the whole thing a "transaction" and each
line a "split". Now he calls the whole thing a "transaction"
and each line a "journal entry" -- treating each line as
a separate entry, as opposed to the set of lines. But they
correspond to "my" "ledger entries".
Both are valid ways of looking at it, and that is where the
confusion can arrise. Especially if people don't read how
Linas is defining it.
>
> b.g.
>
