Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Here's one option! http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html > 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.
