That is useful information! Thank you. I found Increase and Decrease perfectly understandable until it didn't work. 😊
-P. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 7:28 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com> wrote: > Under "Edit/Preferences/Accounts/Labels" if you check the box you will get > standard accounting labels with Debits and Credits. This may be less > confusing to you than Increase and Decrease. > > Thank You, > > *Gyle McCollam* > > Gyle McCollam > > gmccol...@live.com <gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email > ------------------------------ > *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail....@gnucash.org> > on behalf of Peter S. Shenkin <shen...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, August 1, 2022 5:13 PM > *To:* gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org> > *Subject:* [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry > and report forms > > Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.11 on MacOS 11.6.8. > > There are two images attached, labeled Transaction entry and Transaction > report. They are two different views of the same transaction, to a non > profit that I am doing the books for. > > The transaction involves a deposit to our checking account from Wepay. It's > a donation, which we account for under Revenue:Donations, which increases > with a Credit, and the bank account will increase with a Debit, so this > should be properly balanced. > > However, from the Transaction-entry screen shot, where the column labels > are Increase and Decrease, I have to enter the Donation as a Decrease in > order to make the Donation record increase. This is bizarre, is it not? > > You can see in the same image that the checking balance goes up. so it > seems to be properly recorded as a debit; in addition, though not shown, > the sum of Donations does goes up, which seems contrary to having to enter > it as a Decrease. > > Now look at the second screenshot, the Transaction-report view for this > transaction. What is especially strange here is that the labels of the > Debit and Credit columns are exactly reversed. It says that the Checking > side of the transaction is a Credit and the Donation side is a Debit, which > is exactly backwards. > > Any insight, including any aspect due to my own foolishness and/or > inexperience, would be appreciated. > > -P. > _______________________________________________ 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.
