Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	You have a checking account with $1000.

And where did *that* come from?

> It has a way to handle money coming in from nowhere (e.g.
> someone giving you money), so I'm sure you can throw away some as well...

Not in double-entry bookkeeping.  If someone gives you money, it comes from 
the "we owe that person money" account. :-)
	
> 	I think they just call it double entry bookkeeping to do it the way I
> described. Money has to be debited from one account, and credited into
> another.

OK. That's double-entry.

> 	Do note that I brought gnucash into the thread as a complaint, not as a
> recommendation.<G>

Heh. Noted.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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