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### Virtual postings

A posting with parentheses around the account name (`(some:account)`) is called a *unbalanced virtual posting*.
Such postings do not participate in transaction balancing.
A posting with parentheses around the account name, like `(some:account) 10`, is called an *unbalanced virtual posting*.
These postings do not participate in transaction balancing.
(And if you write them without an amount, a zero amount is always inferred.)
These can occasionally be convenient for special circumstances,
but they violate double entry bookkeeping and make your data less portable across applications,
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