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

[Dean Gibson]

Perhaps more likely that he is not using formal accounting labels, & one 
is an asset account & the other is not?


On 2022-04-08 10:21, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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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