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;doc: adjust traditional top level accounts

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Across the rest of the documentation and other accounting documentation
it appears to imply that the more traditional top level name would be
revenue. In fact the income statement says that is a subtraction between
revenue and expenses to derive the income. While the account types that
hledger supports are named revenue so it seems more natural to name this
revenue.
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Account names typically have several parts separated by a full colon, from
which hledger derives a hierarchical chart of accounts. They can be
anything you like, but in finance there are traditionally five top-level
accounts: `assets`, `liabilities`, `income`, `expenses`, and `equity`.
accounts: `assets`, `liabilities`, `revenue`, `expenses`, and `equity`.
Account names may contain single spaces, eg: `assets:accounts receivable`.
Because of this, they must always be followed by **two or more spaces** (or newline).