This is indeed the right answer. I sometimes try to use simpler accounting mechanics than double entry (usually because the person I'm doing it for requests it)

This is indeed the right answer. I sometimes try to use simpler accounting mechanics than double entry (usually because the person I'm doing it for requests it) but it doesn't take long until I want to run a query against the data that becomes complicated under simpler systems but just falls out of the data under double entry.