Debit or Credit ?

[Christian Stimming]

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On Tuesday 25 September 2001 03:23 pm, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> 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.

Okay, if that's the case then I'll change that for any future version. I'm 
happy for any error that's pointed out since I am definitely not an 
accountant at all. :-)

For the record: The reference translation for terms like this can be found in 
the *glossary* which in turn can be found under po/glossary/LL.po.

Christian
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