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## Cost tips
- Recording the cost/conversion rate explicitly is good because it makes that clear and helps detect errors.
- Recording equity postings is good because it is correct bookkeeping and preserves the accounting equation.
- Combining these is possible.
- Recording equity postings is good because it is correct bookkeeping and preserves the accounting equation. In practice, most people don't need this and it's a matter of taste.
- You can do both if you want maximum correctness and utility. Write the @/@@ cost on one of the non-equity postings.
- When you want to see the cost (or sale proceeds) of things, use `-B` (short form of `--cost`).
- If you use conversion postings without cost notation, add `--infer-costs` also.
- If you use cost notation without conversion postings, and you want to see a balanced balance sheet or print correct journal entries, use `--infer-equity`.