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Slightly OT but if you want to get a basic understanding of double-entry accounting in a few minutes I found this article really great: https://martin.kleppmann
by tarsinge 7y ago
Slightly OT but if you want to get a basic understanding of double-entry accounting in a few minutes I found this article really great: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471)
- ms013 7y agoThe NPR planet money podcast also had an interesting episode from 2012 that recently replayed that talked about the origins of the double entry accounting scheme. Pretty interesting history that I didn’t know. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723715402/episode-407-a-mathematician-the-last-supper-and-the-birth-of-accounting https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723715402/episode-407-a-mathe...
- chris_wot 7y agoActually, I taught myself bookkeeping and accounting from the following: https://www.accountingcoach.com/accounting-basics/explanation https://www.accountingcoach.com/accounting-basics/explanatio...
- majewsky 7y agoI used the GnuCash manual. It contains an extensive and (IMO) fairly approachable introduction to double-entry accounting.