It's been rumoured that Buddha Buck said:
>
> > 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.
Sorry to respond to the email a month late. Buddha seems to be right.
>From now on, I will call it 'ledger entry', and feel free to kick me
whenever I don't.
--linas
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