Joe Cooter

This is slightly more than just a preference. In an accounting systems, account balances are represented as either credit normal or debit normal. So, it ends up looking like this:...

> Just to make sure I understand fully what you'd like, could you provide examples of CR and DR on Assets, Liabilities, Income and Expenses accounts? (8 postings) Here's an...

> * Is it _always_ true, that wherever, a CR appears we could replace it with a minus sign, and all DR could be ignored, and we'd have the same...

> I'm losing you here. I understand some of your terminology (credit-normal, debit-normal, that's just a way to state what the positive value of the balance ought to be under...

The root of this is a difference in philosophy of what books actually represent. Both philosophies are attempts to track money. In the beancount philosophy of accounting, books are a...

> I still don't understand what this alternative notation enables, thus I am not convinced that it is desirable to include support for it upstream. Apart from any philosophical debate,...