Hi All, I'm an Engineer by training; I've picked up a ton of accounting knowledge just by being involved here for the past few decades, but there's one thing I've seen recently that I honestly don't underdstand and would appreciate if a CPA or Accounting Historian could answer.
Specifically, I've seen people show a transaction as: Dr ... / Cr ... So CR as an abbreviation for Credit makes sense to me (CRedit). But why is Debit abbreviated as DR? There is no "R" in DEBIT. So where does that come from? I would have expected it to be "Db". Just curious. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ 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.