Multiple csv file import/conversion

[Keith Thompson]

Greetings,
Where did you get the $100 from when you debited the VISA account?
Did you credit the checking account?
Regards,
Keith
On 22/02/2013 12:16, Jamestk wrote:
> Take two (I hope you all are not getting bunches of emails, sorry if you
> are).
>
> Hello again.
>
> Please forgive the off topic query but I didn't want to start a whole new
> thread for a simple Q'n (hopefully simple).
>
> Ok, having followed the help tutorials several times adding transactions,
> splits ect all seems well apart from the Visa account.
>
> I credited this with $100 as per tutorial which showed as a positive credit
> putting the Visa account balance $100 in the black. However when I tried
> repeating a similar transaction from the checking account it appears as a
> debit, i.e a payment in both accounts?
>
> I have scoured the tutorial as to why but none the wiser. If possible I
> would like to also change the Visa register heading from 'charge' (maybe
> American?) to 'deposit' as charge tends to indicate a payment or at least
> that is how I interpret it.
>
> The following Tip from the help file is the closest I came when searching.
>
> *Tip Liabilities in accounting act in an opposite manner from assets:
> credits (right-column value entries) increase liability account balances and
> debits (left-column value entries) decrease them. (See note later in this
> chapter)*
>
> Thanks -
>
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