Richard Wackerbarth writes:
> "negative" entries are NOT the same as debit-credit.
> ...
> However, if I actually had a loss, it can be viewed that I credit "capital
> gains" with a negative amount.
Niswonger and Fess do not agree with you. In any case, the subject was the
display of balances in account registers, not entries or reports.
> As for the display of accounts, "minus signs", parenthesis, and "red ink"
> are all proper methods of displaying a number that is "backward".
These are methods of displaying balances that are the opposite of what is
"normal" for the particular account, yes.
> T-accounts have nothing to do with this.
At present we have a single column for the balance in an account register,
and indicate when an amount in this column is the opposite of what is
normal for this account with a minus sign. I suggested that an alternative
would be to display the balance column in T account form, like this:
Balance
Debit Credit
--------------
100.00 |
90.00 |
70.00 |
20.00 |
| 50.00
| 10.00
15.00 |
115.00 |
This would eliminate the need for "sign-reversal" without confusing the
user by showing her negative balances by eliminating the need to classify a
balance as "bacwards". In most accounts one column or the other would
almost always be empty: some clever register code could suppress the empty
column.
That is what T accounts have to do with this.
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John Hasler
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
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