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January 27, 2003

GnuCash and double entry accounting, by Joe Mack. GnuCash is a GPL'd accounting program for Unix. It works well and is easy to use, but double entry accounting can be confusing to non-accountants like me. Joe clears up the terminology with a few simple examples.