Accounting Event

  

A payment. A receipt of inventory. A final contract on a sale. A realization of a really bad debt to be recognized. All of these are accounting events, i.e. things that need to be recognized on the books as a Thing. Just staring at a column of numbers doesn't count as an event, even though it's oh so common in this sport.

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