diff --git a/doc/sgml/C/xacc-doubleentry.sgml b/doc/sgml/C/xacc-doubleentry.sgml index b7c7072b1d..d4b50302dd 100644 --- a/doc/sgml/C/xacc-doubleentry.sgml +++ b/doc/sgml/C/xacc-doubleentry.sgml @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ In the course of maintaining large, complex sets of accounts with many transactions, it is very easy to make errors that may go undetected for a long time, and be appallingly difficult to track down, even when - double-entry bookkepping is used. + double-entry bookkeeping is used. @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ accounting; if you add something in to one account, you have to subtract it from somewhere else. When this is done regularly and consistently, this results in the - magical identity of accounting: + identity of accounting: + Total of Debits = Total of Credits. @@ -86,11 +87,10 @@ somewhat more accurate to call it multiple-entry bookkeeping. Unfortunately, there's 700 years of history of use of the term, which sufficiently discourages changing it. (And you - thought parts of Unix were criufty and old!) + thought parts of Unix were crufty and old!) - Insider knowledge: Bank statements are frequently written up from the bank's perspective, which is