Debits and Credits ... and Ledgers

Jack ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jan 19 19:49:31 GMT 2021


Really just a matter of terminology, and column titles change depending  
on type of account. (payment/deposit, charge/payment,  
decrease/increase, ...)  I'm not certain, but I suspect the OP is  
requesting a flip of the order of those two columns in the ledger for  
at least some types of accounts.

On 2021.01.19 14:41, Koos Pol wrote:
> Can you confirm what you're looking at? Because the ledger doesn't  
> have Debit/Credit but Decrease/Increase.
> 
> Koos
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> Op 18-01-2021 om 23:41 schreef None None:
>> Hi all!
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>> I was wondering what the community's thoughts are on this:
>> 
>> I noticed that the ledgers in KMyMoney(Please can we just call it  
>> MyMoney or My-Money? :) ), show the Debits and Credits opposite of  
>> where I would expect them(from my limited accounting experience).  
>> Meaning opposite of what is usually the custom in the USA.
>> 
>> Debit vs. Credit: An Accounting Reference Guide (+Examples)  
>> <https://www.fool.com/the-blueprint/debit-vs-credit/>
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>>     Debit vs. Credit: An Accounting Reference Guide (+Examples)
>> 
>> Mary Girsch-Bock
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>> Understand the difference between debits vs. credits with this guide  
>> from The Blueprint, which also provides mul...
>> 
>> <https://www.fool.com/the-blueprint/debit-vs-credit/>
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>> Is KMyMoney set up this way because it is customary in another place?
>> 
>> What if KMY allowed users to select in what orders they would see  
>> the Debit/Credit accounts in the ledger?
>> 
>> What do you guys think?
>> 
>> thank,
>> 
>> JV
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