Debit or Credit ?

[Christian Stimming]

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On Tuesday 25 September 2001 10:37 am, Thomas Spahni wrote:
> The last 3 columns for my bank account (type bank) are:
>    Debit        Credit       Balance   (or:)
>    Belastung    Gutschrift   Saldo     (respectively in German)
>
> When someone pays some money to my bank account :-)
> I have to enter this into the left column (named "Debit")
> to make the balance grow (as it should).
>
> However, I would expect to have the columns named in the following
> order:
>
>    Credit       Debit        Balance   (or:)
>    Gutschrift   Belastung    Saldo     (respectively in German)
>
> I am confused. What am I missing or doing wrong???

You are using the "accounting labels" for the columns in the register. I 
can't really explain  why professional accountants use the labels in the 
first way, but they do, and that's why we provide it that way in GnuCash. 

You should probably disable the checkbox "use accounting labels"  (German: 
"Buchungsüberschriften aus Rechnungswesen") in the preferences, tab "General" 
("Allgemeines").

Christian
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