Accounting Schema - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Cramer
Subject Accounting Schema
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Msg-id 05cf01c0d5b8$66f93240$0401a8c0@INSPIRON
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Hi all,

Can anyone out there with more experience than me give me some hints as to
how to do accounting tables in a db. The problem I am wrestling with is how
to represent credits, and debits.
One way is to identify credits and debits with a transactiontype, and keep
all of the numbers positive which models the way accountants do it. This
makes things liking calculating the balance difficult with a sql statement.

Any hints would be appreciated.

Dave


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