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  <subtitle>Notes on building Simple Balance, and on double-entry bookkeeping for one person.</subtitle>
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    <title>What a refund actually is</title>
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    <summary>Money coming back into a spending category is not income, and treating it as income quietly inflates both sides of your year.</summary>
    <author><name>Gavin Johnson</name></author>
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    <title>Double-entry bookkeeping, for one person</title>
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    <summary>Why a personal finance app that nobody audits still benefits from books that have to balance.</summary>
    <author><name>Gavin Johnson</name></author>
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