Jon Lapham schrieb: < ... > > Thus, money deposited into your personal savings account (an asset > account from your perspective) goes in the debit column because the > account is considered a liability from the bank's perspective. Wow. > > Do we really want to get into all of this? I imagine this confusion is > the reason why the "credit" and "debit" column of GnuCash have all been > renamed (ie: renamed to "Deposit" and "Withdrawal" for a savings account).
Well, there is an option "Use accounting labels" under edit->preferences->accounts. If you select this option then you get "credit" and "debit" everywhere for the professional accountant. If you don't select the option then you get the more common column lables ... Herbert. > -- > -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > Personal: http://www.jandr.org/ > ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
