Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Double-Entry Accounting: What It Means and How It Works Your email has been sent Double-entry accounting is a system of recording transactions in two parts, debits and credits. This method of ...

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In a double-entry accounting system, a corporate bookkeeper records every transaction through two accounts, depending on the underlying economic event -- the other name for a transaction. The ...

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Companies record every transaction in their accounting books based on the double-entry system. Because every transaction involves certain kinds of monetary exchanges between at least two business ...

A HISTORY OF double-entry accounting? Not a sexy prospect. The very idea evokes rows of half-starved, bent-over Dickensian clerks, with visors and arthritic hands, scribbling in giant, unending ...

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Edward Kellman, CEO and chief design engineer of Trakker Apps, holds two U.S. patents for an innovative take on double-entry accounting. The system, known as the Double-Entry Multi-Extrinsic-Variable ...