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by ms013 2563 days ago
The 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-mathe...

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Actually, I taught myself bookkeeping and accounting from the following:

https://www.accountingcoach.com/accounting-basics/explanatio...

I used the GnuCash manual. It contains an extensive and (IMO) fairly approachable introduction to double-entry accounting.