learned today that in accounting, "allowance" means to subtract. Now I can stop banging my head on the desk in frustration.

At least about that

Thanks. Who knew that a word processor for accountants would need to know terminology? geez.

I've never taken accounting. Language is my forte.

Yes. Now, the next step is a Rosetta Stone for that language

somewhere there is a "Bulletproof Monk" with a big accounting lore tattoo