[GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

[Peter S. Shenkin]

My entry is not backwards.

In the first of my attachments you can see how I entered the Checking debit
in the register and you can also see that it in fact increased the
Assets...Checking Balance.

Yet in the transaction report, it is reported as a Credit, which is
backwards.

-P.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:02 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> The report is correct.
>
> Your entry is backwards.
>
> Open your Checking register.
>
> Then View > Transaction Journal (now you see all splits for all
> transactions, nothing hidden)
>
> This particular transaction should be:
>
> dr. Checking
> cr. Donations
>
> That will increase *both* the amount in your checking account, and the
> revenue received as donations.
>
> Note, 'credit' increases Income, Liabilities, & Equity accounts; 'debit'
> increases Assets & Expenses.
>
> Preferences > Accounts > Reverse balanced accounts usually defaults to
> 'Credit Accounts' to reflect the above.
>
> If you want to see Credit accounts as normally negative instead of
> positive, change this setting. But I'd recommend leaving it as is for
> now till you get the hang of double-entry and the Accounting Equation.
> (and you might opt to never change it, nothing wrong with that)
>
> An easy way to 'flip' a transaction is to simply put negative signs in
> front of the amounts. GnuCash will move them from debit to credit and
> vice versa. (all amounts in a register are positive except Balance which
> may be negative)
>
> The idea with double entry is not necessarily to increase *and* decrease
> something in the same transaction, though that can occur.
>
> In this particular case, money is coming in from outside, so both sides
> of the transaction need to increase.
>
> If you were paying down a liability, money going out, then both sides
> would decrease.
>
> It is only when you are moving funds between accounts but not in or out
> of your book that you get both an increase & decrease in the same
> transaction.
>
> *finally, you can see all splits for a single transaction using the View
>  > Auto-Split mode, or if in Basic mode, use the Split button on the
> toolbar. You don't need to leave Transaction Journal mode on unless you
> prefer it. (and there is a preference to set the default view mode for
> all registers)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/1/22 6:35 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> > Also, the second part of my question involved the Transaction report.
> There
> > the headings at the top seem backwards. They are labeled Credit and
> Debit,
> > but where I entered a Debit, it appears in the Credit column and vice
> > versa.  Any comment on this?
>
>
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