At its core, accounting is about keeping track of countable things over time. Some of the oldest documents archelogists have found register quantities in old societies: food, animals, people, money. Nowadays, accounting is usually interested in tracking money, whereas other areas (such as inventory management or the census bureau) count the rest. For the rest of this article, we’ll focus on money.
Matheus Portela – Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
Let’s start with a very simple example…
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