Debit or Credit ?
Reinhard Mueller
reinhard.mueller@bytewise.at
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:23:21 +0200
Christian Stimming wrote:
>>The last 3 columns for my bank account (type bank) are:
>> Debit Credit Balance (or:)
>> Belastung Gutschrift Saldo (respectively in German)
>
> 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.
I am not a *professional* accountant, but AFAIK they use the German
terms "Soll" and "Haben", and nothing else. "Belastung" and "Gutschrift"
is non-accounting talk.
If possible, the "accounting labels" variant should read "Soll" and
"Haben" IMHO, and the non-accounting labels maybe "Einnahme" and
"Ausgabe" which could be best understandable to non-accountants.
Thanks,
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Reinhard Mueller
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