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Double-entry bookkeeping is essentially the law of conservation of energy applied to balance sheets. It's much more deep as it was invented some 5 centuries earlier than programming.


Conservation of money in that case. Money doesn’t just disappear. What goes away somewhere has to appear somewhere else.


exactly




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