liability accounts

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hey people. I think I have everything set up now, except for one thing. 

    I currently have an outstanding balance on my student loan that I'm paying
off. So, I looked in the help files, and it states that this should be
represented by a liability account. So, I created one to represent my student
loan. I transferred the opening balance from my retained losses equity
account, and there was then a positive value in the liability account. This
looked fine to me. However, when I make a transfer from my bank account into
the liability account, the balance goes up instead of down. Not exactly what I
wanted. ;-)

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks,

    Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> 
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