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This chapter is about keeping financial records and physically controlling spending. These are the nuts and bolts of managing the numbers. The analysis comes later. To make it easy to introduce bookkeeping, I have approached it from the angle of an entrepreneur starting a new business. This is probably where you are if you have an overwhelming interest in posting your own transactions. However, even if you are working in a big corporation supported by teams of beanies, I hope you will at least skim the bookkeeping section and gain an understanding of debits and credits, double entry accounting, and the chart of accounts. Please take particular note of comments about passing transactions through the bank account ...
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