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Revision as of 20:48, 4 July 2017
In reporting and modelling, a decision about the meaning of positive and negative numbers.
Many errors and failures of understanding result from not establishing sign conventions, or not following them consistently.
Examples of sign conventions include:
- Assets / (liabilities)
- Income / (expense)
- Inflow / (outflow)
- Mostly positive
- B/(W)
