Well, it... it's not exactly
tedium. It's... kinda' like watching or playing with a falling sand simulator? Or, again, like playing tetris. S'playing with an action-reaction event and seeing what happens. Stuff like that. Honestly not too terribly far, sensation wise, from playing DF. It's a mathematical slinky and the information you're feeding into what you're doing is the stairs. Everyone loves slinkies... right? When you're actually playing with them, the time passes quick and after a bit it starts taking less and less time 'cause you're more comfortable having it skip stair steps or bounce off people's heads or whatever.
At least, so long as you don't come into it
thinking it's tedium. Readjust how you look at it, would be my suggestion. It's something to
play with, y'know?
As to that pic, well... some of the stuff's been slightly different for me (Drawing was generally just withdrawls for the earlier stuff, and has transitioned into dividends as we're working more on corporate stuff, and owner's capital has largely transitioned over to stockholder's equity.), but really... I, uh. I don't think I ever actually
memorized all of those. You only
need (if that) to know half of them (maybe less!), really
So long as you know the normal balance of one of the accounts you're dealing with, the rest tend to fall into place due to obvious reasons, heh. Though there are plenty of little... wuzzat things, acronyms or whatever (like, ferex, one of my current class largely deals with LACERD -- Liabilities, assets, common stock/stockholder's equity, expenses, revenue, dividends, and they alternate normal balances: CDCDCD.). There's a fair amount of those that can help out if you're actually trying to full stop memorize things.
Contra and adjunct accounts make things more fun, too~
E: Also, yanking out a spreadsheet program and
using it helps
ridiculous loads when it comes to keeping track of things
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