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by why-o-why 161 days ago
"Quicken is a single-entry accounting system, which means that amounts can appear out of or disappear into thin air. In a double-entry accounting system you can't put amounts in an account without taking it out of another account."

This summed it up nicely, from https://github.com/mortisj/quicken2beancount