Resources for Learning Financial Systems Engineering and Ledgering Concepts
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Summary
This is a Hacker News discussion thread where a user asks for resources to learn financial systems engineering. Another user responds by recommending their own company's blog posts about ledgering concepts and a book called "The Accounting Game: basic accounting fresh from the lemonade stand." The content focuses on educational resources for understanding financial engineering concepts, particularly ledgering and accounting fundamentals.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledQuestion is a bit broad, but out of all the concepts under the financial engineering umbrella you're bound to explore the concept of ledgering eventually.
I've written a bit about it on my own co's product blog in an attempt to demystify some core concepts [1], [2], [3].
Still on ledgering and expanding into less mathematical and more applied concepts, I can also recommend a book called 'The Accounting Game: basic accounting fresh from the lemonade stand' [4].
https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-not-to-build-a...
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