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Comment #36862502
While true, it's often two distinct processes. I work with implementing ERP systems, focusing on accounting and financials. Most systems I see use the ERP system to generate the in…
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Comment #28424464
I don't think the file format above is especially conductive to learning. In my experience, most people learn double-entry bookkeeping with T accounts; debit is on the left, credit…
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Comment #27977164
> You call it "BS" for some reason (you seem not to believe in it) The balance sheet is typically abbreviated as BS, so a BS account is a balance sheet account. It's been a while s…
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Comment #23978231
Modern accounting systems like most ERPs allow you to specify the account and offset account in one line. It pretty much like you describe and is the preferred method for simple en…
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Comment #23978128
You often end up with three accounts. Asset (balance sheet), accumulated depreciation (balance sheet), and the depreciation expense account (P&L). In which case the depreciation is…
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Comment #23525016
From how I understand it, the idea behind Power Automate isn't to move programmers over to it. It's to allow other people in the business to automate their workflows without bringi…
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Comment #18154314
I can only speak for Norway, but here we use different articles for the different genders. In Bokmål, a masculine noun uses "en", a feminine noun uses "ei or en", and non-gendered …
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Comment #17376262
It's kind of a problem in that any supply problems have pretty massive effects on the price. A cyclone hit Madagascar in 2011 which significantly reduced the year's harvest, sendin…
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Comment #17307134
It's also worth noting that R becomes much more pleasurable with the Tidyverse libraries. The pipe alone makes everything more readable. I'm also coming from more of an office sett…
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Comment #17302098
Debt can be a strategic tool for a company. They want to maintain a certain debt-to-equity ratio as eliminating debt would probably be more expensive in the long run than maintaini…
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Comment #17253957
Oh, I get what you mean now. A system like you show is essentially debits/credits, yes. For a lot of the smaller accounting systems, they actually print the GL in the format you sh…
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Comment #17250627
>I would risk that most accountant don't know their debits and credits I've worked in accounting and this is just not true. The ledger is stated in debit/credit and all transaction…
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Comment #17245638
I can only answer 1 from the perspective of a non-US, very junior, auditor with little experience, but I'll try. I don't see how it handles complex transactions very well. A simple…
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Comment #17245604
I'll try to cover the accounts payable/receivable parts at least. One of the major points of modern bookkeeping is accrual accounting, which means that we recognize economic transa…
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Comment #17229508
Pants falling down your ass isn't a protected class, so that's not really a fair argument.
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Comment #17197610
> Only with the consent of the parents. Why should the consent of the parents matter when designing the curriculum? If the parents in an area suddenly decides that they all believe…
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Comment #16030051
Some people want to be a business partner more than an employee. Not that that's impossible as a software engineer, but it may be easier from a different starting point.
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Comment #15971038
IANAL, but only consideration is a common law thing, and is not required in the majority of EU countries, provided that I recall correctly.
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Comment #15968943
I'd guess that 80% of my Google Maps use is within one country, and that 99% is within three countries. I'd definitely download separate maps for each country to get better directi…