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The double-entry method is more accurate and less error-prone, as it provides a detailed view of how the money moves throughout your business. Also, if you’re planning to get a loan or looking for an investor, it’s preferable for you to manage your books following the double-entrybookkeeping method.
From early Mesopotamian records of goods sold and bought around 7,000 years ago to the first bookkeepers recording barters of goods around 2000 B.C. From the first attempts at single-entrybookkeeping in the 1400s to the invention of double-entrybookkeeping almost a hundred years after.
Single-entrybookkeeping vs. double-entrybookkeeping. The single-entry method suggests entering each transaction only once. It’s a rather simple method of bookkeeping that doesn’t provide for your inventory, for example. For example, upon a sale, you record the sum of the purchase in your account.
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