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Glossary

Double entry

Bookkeeping in which every transaction is recorded as equal debits and credits, so the books always balance.

Tax term

An entry that does not balance is a defect rather than a rounding difference, which is why the arithmetic is done in exact decimal rather than floating point — the latter loses fractions of a penny in a way that accumulates.

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