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bookspec/spec holds the first edition: the model and the five laws
(00-model.md) and one file per area, each B-rule a section with its
status, a MUST/MAY statement, sources pinned either to a vendored source
with a verbatim quotation or to an exact external paragraph, its symbolic
form, its examples and its applicability. B-39, B-40, B-43 and B-45 are
reserved sections (allocated, not yet stated in rules.md); B-44 is stated
in rules.md and now carries its bookspec id and CONVENTION status.

Eight new examples show the laws that had none, each figure worked by
hand: an unbalanced entry is refused (Pacioli ch. 36, Pub. 583), a
negative or zero line is refused, a fraction of a cent is refused (ISO
4217), a child account takes its parent's type, the trial balance and the
accounting equation on one small book (cash 6550.25 = loan 2000 + capital
5000 + (sales 750.50 - rent 1200.25)), a reversal leaves the original
standing and a second reversal is refused, a close sweeps revenue and
expenses into Retained Earnings (3999) and the closed quarter takes no
late entry, and cents add exactly. The refusal vocabulary gains
unbalanced, negative_amount, zero_amount, too_few_lines,
finer_than_minor_unit, parent_type_mismatch, already_reversed and
period_closed; a refused entry may carry a non-positive amount.

The checker's spec.rs fails the build on a rule without its section, a
statement without MUST/SHOULD/MAY, a pin that is not verbatim in its
vendored source, examples that differ from the catalogue, or more than 60
pages.

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id = "entry-cents-add-exactly"
title = "Amounts are kept exactly: ten cents and twenty cents make thirty"
rule = "The books MUST keep every amount exactly and add exactly, so that no sum of cents differs from its true total by any amount, however small; rounding MUST NOT occur inside the books."
status = "AUTHORITY"
sources = [
"IRS Form 1065 instructions: \"include cents when adding the amounts and round off only the total\" (docs/spec/sources/irs-partnerships.md)",
"Pacioli, Summa (1494), ch. 36: the credits equal the debits, which no float sum guarantees (docs/spec/sources/pacioli-1494.md)",
]
tags = ["accrual", "book", "us", "entry", "exact"]
[setup]
currency = "USD"
fiscal_year_start = "01-01"
basis = "accrual"
rounding = "half-even"
[[setup.accounts]]
code = "1000"
name = "Cash"
type = "asset"
[[setup.accounts]]
code = "2000"
name = "Loan"
type = "liability"
[[setup.accounts]]
code = "3000"
name = "Capital"
type = "equity"
[[setup.accounts]]
code = "4000"
name = "Sales"
type = "revenue"
tax_category = "gross_receipts"
[[setup.accounts]]
code = "6000"
name = "Rent"
type = "expense"
tax_category = "rent_property"
# In binary floating point 0.1 + 0.2 is 0.30000000000000004. Two debits of
# 0.10 and 0.20 against one credit of 0.30 balance exactly.
[[events]]
date = "2026-01-05"
description = "Three small sales"
lines = [
{ account = "1000", side = "debit", amount = "0.10" },
{ account = "1000", side = "debit", amount = "0.20" },
{ account = "4000", side = "credit", amount = "0.30" },
]
[[events]]
date = "2026-01-06"
description = "A sale of a trillion and a cent"
lines = [
{ account = "1000", side = "debit", amount = "1000000000000.01" },
{ account = "4000", side = "credit", amount = "1000000000000.01" },
]
[[expect]]
query = "balances"
as_of = "2026-12-31"
[expect.values]
"1000" = "1000000000000.31"
"4000" = "1000000000000.31"