Manual in French

[John Ralls]

On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:01 AM, Kerspern Nicolas Wanadoo.fr <kerspern.nicolas at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> @John, thanks
> 
> @users,
> From gnucash-2.6.3 (01-04-2014) Windows, 
> I seem that the translation made a mistake:
> 
> When:
> (in EN)
> In Preference>Account>Labels>Use formal accounting labels > Set
> And (in FR) 
> Préférence>Comptes>Labels>Utiliser la terminologie comptable> Cocher
> 
> Dysfunction:
> We found, in account/bank list, two columns which switched may be
> wrong in French: 
> (Débit => Dépôt) and (Crédit => Retrait) 
> 
> Please switch:
> (Débit => Retrait) and (Crédit => Dépôt)
> 
> And not: 
> (Débit => Dépôt) and (Crédit => Retrait)
> 

By default GnuCash uses (in English) "Deposit" and "Withdraw" for Accounts of type BANK. Those are translated in French to "Dépôt" and "Retrait". If you want to see "Débit" and "Crédit" ("Debit" and "Credit" in English), please go to Preferences>Accounts and check the "Utiliser la terminologie comptable" box.

Note that in formal accounting adding money to an asset account is a debit and removing it is a credit. Please see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptabilit%C3%A9_d%27entreprise#D.C3.A9bit_.28Dt.29.2C_cr.C3.A9dit_.28Ct.29

Regards,
John Ralls