How Important is Accounting in PE?

Obviously all the basics of accounting are very important in PE, IFRS 16 in REPE and operating assets, there are certain treatments of all kinds of line items.

Specifically, this thread is about double-entry book keeping.

As an An1 at an M&A house, Dr this and Cr that gets thrown around a lot by those with past accounting expirience, do all M&A analysts learn this in the end and should I make a start now?

TL;DR: How important is knowing double-entry book keeping for PE and how important is accounting knowledge for PE in general?

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Much appreciated, I'll take some time to conceptualise and be in touch if any questions. 

 

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