Mike, The first chapter or two of the Tutorial and Concepts guide
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html may help with getting this straight. Wikipedia also has quite good articles on double entry accounting, the accounting equation and debits and credits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debits_and_credits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.