Accounting 1-A In the days before calculators, accountants were frequently unable to get their debits to balance with their credits. So, in order to overcome the discrepancy, they often created a bogus account entitled "Taste" to store the unbalanced amount and allow the books to balance. Unfortunately, the government soon heard of this practice, and declared a new law: that there would, from this point on, ... be no accounting for Taste. Thanks to Stan Kegel