Aid in understanding a simple accounting question.

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I do not have a very robust accounting system as of yet. I have thousands of products and no time to individually enter each transaction at this point. Basically I want to track my sales and taxes so that "folks don't throw rocks at me". When I do a daily sales journal entry (keep in mind that I do not have a scanner set up to auto enter sales into Sage), I am debiting my cash accounts and debiting my sales accounts to balance the entry... When I do so I end up with negative numbers in my sales. Now I expect that in the future I will turn these negatives in to positives by reducing the negatives by the then current inventory against the negative inventory and sending that to a cash account as the actual income. Does this sound even close to right?

HH