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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>,
	Charles Berry <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Samuel Banya <sbanya@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:31:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2352934.1641828705@apollo2.minshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgo4xea3.fsf@mbork.pl>

> I'm wondering if your opinion about Ledger isn't influenced by the fact
> that it uses basic accounting principles, like the idea of double-entry
> accounting.  For me, it's /very/ simple and intuitive, but I graduated
> in economics many years ago and had a (basic, but still) course on
> accounting.  If that is your problem, I'd suggest spending some time on
> understanding that - even if you don't end up using Ledger but some
> other software, you might find learning about accounting useful.  (Also,
> it's fascinating.  No, really!  It's an extremely clever abstract
> system with a real-life use-case.)

i agree that learning the principles of double-entry is worthwhile,
actually interesting, and of a very interesting history!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-10 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-09 16:56 Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet Samuel Banya
2022-01-09 19:05 ` Ken Mankoff
2022-01-09 19:48 ` John Hendy
2022-01-09 22:37 ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-10  3:42   ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-10  7:04     ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-10  7:17       ` Detlef Steuer
2022-01-10 15:31       ` Greg Minshall [this message]
2022-01-10 17:01         ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-10 17:23           ` John Hendy
2022-01-10 19:04           ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-10 22:44             ` Samuel Wales
2022-01-11  0:30             ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-11  0:41               ` John Hendy
2022-01-11  0:43                 ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-10 10:31     ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-19 15:01       ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-14 19:54     ` Quiliro Ordóñez
2022-01-16 15:15       ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 15:19         ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 15:35           ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 18:10             ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-17  0:41           ` John Hendy
2022-01-10 13:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-10 17:09   ` Bob Newell

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