On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Blais <[email protected]> [2014-07-15 17:02]: > > I remembered how I initially became acquainted with the double-entry > > method. It was through this website: http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/ > Me too :) Highly recommended.
Given we're AOL-ing :), me too! It is Martin (M.) who pointed me to that website a while ago and, exactly as it happened to Martin (B.), I got hooked. Then, another day, we might want to discuss how double-entry accounting is usually taught, including on that website, i.e. in a way that I find exceedingly mnemonic (e.g., which sign should you use on which column, what you should call a "debit" vs a "credit", etc.). In my day-to-day use of ledger/beancount, most of that is totally useless; once you understand the accounting equation and some basic terminology, you've 80% of what you need. The remaining 20% are actually patterns and best practices that, OTOH, might take a very long time to grasp (I'm definitely still crawling through them). I'm getting more and more convinced that there should be a more geek-friendly way of teaching double-entry accounting than what it is presently used in non-geek circles. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
