[GNC] Debit and Credit columns wrong way round on one transaction report but not the other

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Fri Apr 8 13:21:16 EDT 2022


If indeed your transactions were entered backwards, you can go through 
each one and put a minus sign in front of each and every debit and 
credit amount and they will swap sides after tabbing through. (there 
might be an easier way to swap them, but I'm not aware of such)

There's no such thing as a negative debit or negative credit. They are 
simply the 'negative' of each other which is why GnuCash will swap the 
value to the opposite column if you put a minus sign on a value. (you 
are either increasing or decreasing an account's balance, you can't 
'negative increase' or 'negative decrease' it.)

Note, you probably want to turn on View > Transaction Journal while 
doing this so you see all splits in a transaction. Be sure to reverse 
every single split in every transaction or else you'll have a mess of 
Imbalance entries to deal with.

Regards,
Adrien

On 4/8/22 5:19 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> I have two accounts for my PCC using GnuCash, one is the general
> church fund and the other is the buiding fund.
> 
> For some odd reason the Debit and Credit column labels are the wrong
> way round on the building fund, other reports are OK.  What's going on?
> 



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