[eviks]

you don't need to record the halves, nothing stops your pizza order to be automatically recordered as

-A_cash +A_inventory

-A_inventory + L_expenses

Sure, if your pizza is frozen and consumed in another period, your books will not reflect reality, but so what, when talking about the very basics of accounting you offset that misrepresentation of a simple example by gaining an important pedagogic benefit! Which one, though? What do you gain by denying that pizza is an asset, going so far as calling recognition of an asset as an asset a fraud (but only in extreme cases of 5 pizzas!) and bringing depreciation/core business in?

[renewiltord]

Perhaps this is obvious to you, but I don't see what I'm gaining by doing this. My inventory management system will have different things unless I'm also recording these pizzas in there for the day. And it will show my inventory valuation as fluctuating when I do things like lunch or dinner for the team. It really seems useless to me when running the business.

[eviks]

That's fine, many accounting practices eschew precision for simplicity, you don't mark-to-market everything, depreciation is linear, etc, so if you don't see any value in this, but only troubles with integration with other systems etc, then it's useless to you. But then the article wasn't about running a real business