Profit-centre accounting?

Edward Doolittle edward.doolittle at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 15:17:34 EST 2015


On 5 February 2015 at 12:32, Jan Steinman <Jan at ecoreality.org> wrote:

>
> I guess I never tried Income nor Expense because of the cognitive
> dissonance of picking an arbitrary one of two opposites. But if I think of
> "Income" and "Expense" as just different categories of (possibly negative)
> equity, it's much easier to understand. Thanks for the detailed explanation.


I think it might be more symmetric (though more dissonant, to some) to put
the profit center's income and expenses under an equity account, but I just
tried it and it doesn't work.

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Edward Doolittle
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First Nations University of Canada
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