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Slightly OT but if you want to get a basic understanding of double-entry accounting in a few minutes I found this article really great: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471)

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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...

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.

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