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