ConceptConservation of Financial Mass
Financial Conservation of Quality
The mathematical formulation of double-entry bookkeeping, requiring that the sum of all debit amounts in a ledger strictly equals the sum of all credit amounts. It is a global invariant that can be verified at any point in time.
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Oct 16
The balance of double-entry bookkeeping is a global property computed across the entire history; if arbitrary rows may be modified in place, the equality between total debits and total credits can be silently broken and the system cannot detect it without recomputing everything.
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