A/payable A/receiveable definitions interchanged ?

[Richard Leopold]

MOIn !

First: I'm not a great accounter and I'm using Gnucash 1.7.7.

The documentation (help) says:
> Accounts Payable are used by businesses to record sales for 
> which they are not immediately paid.

> Accounts Receivable records bills that businesses have received, 
> but might not pay until later.

If this is right, then it seem to be, that the labels are interchanged: 
The labels on a A/payable-account-card (payment, bill) and on a 
A/receiveable-card (payment, invoice).

So if I book a bill on a A/payable account, and the transfer is income,
then the income becomes negative (charge) ?!

payable                income                 expense
payment | bill         charge | income        expense | charge
--------+-------       -------+--------       --------+-------
        | 2500                |                       |
  500   |                     |                  500  |
 2000   |               2000  |                       |

Shouldn't it be positive  like:

payable                income                 expense
payment | bill         charge | income        expense | charge
--------+-------       -------+--------       --------+-------
        | 2500                |                       |
  500   |                     |                       |  500
 2000   |                     | 2000                  |


Same game on the A/receivable Account.

I think, it's the documentation, where the the definitions of the
accounts are interchanged #o)


Regards - 


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