Qui--en is double entry, too.

herman herman at aerospacesoftware.com
Wed May 28 08:36:36 CDT 2003


Linas Vepstas wrote:

>On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:01:52PM -0700, Brian was heard to remark:
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>>It just dawned on me today, any program does the same
>>thing, including the Q program.  It's just that GnuCash
>>calls both sides an account.  In Q, one side is called
>>an account, and the other is called a category.
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>Last time I used quicken (which was a *long* time ago)
>it was impossible to balance categories, or to perform
>any sort of meaningful operations on them.
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>>So what's in a name?  It's still double entry!  One place
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>Well, in quicken, the categories don't balance!
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>>where money comes from and one where it goes to.  This
>>was an intellectually free-ing thought for me. :-)
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>the concept is not hard, it just has to work correctly!
>
>--linas
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Yup, Quicken simulates double entry, while Quickbooks is double entry 
and pretty much the same as GNUCash.  Intuit therefore covers both the 
home and business markets.

Cheers,

-- 
Herman Oosthuysen (B.Eng.(E))
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