Entry

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Entries compose Transactions. An individual Entry allocates some value to an Account as either one of the fundamental Sides: a debit or a credit. All together, those debits and credits will add up to zero, satisfying the fundamental double-entry accounting equality.

When utilising the Amatino API, operations involving Entries always occur as part of a Transaction request. For example, when creating a Transaction, you will specify a JSON Array of Entry objects under the entries key. You will never send or recieve an Entry object on its own to or from the Amatino API.

Properties

.side - Side

The fundamental side of this Entry, a debit or a credit.

Example: Side.debit

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.description - String

A friendly description of this Entry. Suitable for a more granular description than that provided to the containing Transaction. You might also provide an empty string if the containing Transaction's description already provides sufficient information.

Example: "Portion of transaction allocating prior customer deposit to revenue"

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.accountId - Number

The integer identifier of the Account to which this Entry allocates value.

Example: 42

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.amount - String

A string describing the amount of value this Entry allocates.

Example: "100.42"

Constructor

You will use the constructor to initialise Entries for inclusion in Transactions. For example, see the constructor in action in the Transaction.createWithGlobalUnit() static method.

Parameters

1. side: Side
2. description: String
3. account: Account
4. amount: String

Example

const debitEntry = new Entry(
  Side.debit,
  "Increase value of cash on hand",
  cashOnHand, // an instance of type Account,
  amount: "42.42"
)