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by narendraj9 3426 days ago
Yes, `hledger' is based on double entry bookkeeping. But we do not use the Credit and Debit conventions. Instead we use negative numbers to imply deduction in the balance of an account. Each journal entry must be balanced.
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I actually want to write an Emacs Lisp port of hledger/ledger. Just for fun sometime. I cannot do this in the near future though.
So you make sure everything sums to 0 instead of sum(credits) == sum(debits)?