Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Krustopolis 2145 days ago
Apples and oranges. By way of analogy, the OP was talking about C while you are describing building a commercial Windows app. DE accounting is a simple tool that can be used in complex ways.
1 comments

OP is neither, it is in Python, but this merely demonstrates that accounting can be incorrect in any language.

The problem isn't just terminology, but when people use the term double-entry accounting interchangeably with double-entry book-keeping, they reveal how little they know about the subject matter, and how unqualified they are to be implementing either.