Re: Income shows as negative

2018-03-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/11/2018 3:14 AM, D wrote: Hello, Although I am *not* an accountant, I understand that in standard accounting, income is shown as a negative balance. The Tutorial covers this. There is a setting that allows you to display income accounts with reversed signs, if this bothers you. "debit"

Re: Income shows as negative

2018-03-11 Thread Stan Brown
On 2018-03-10 22:48, am wrote: > I just finished setting up gnuCASH and found that after entering > income (and other date ie expenses, etc) it shows up as negative(in > parenthesis). This would mean a negative income? Why would it not > show as expected - POSITIVE income since there was no loss.

Re: Income shows as negative

2018-03-10 Thread D
.org Subject: Income shows as negative I just finished setting up gnuCASH and found that after entering income (and other date ie expenses, etc) it shows up as negative(in parenthesis). This would mean a negative income? Why would it not show as expected - POSITIVE income since there was no loss.

Income shows as negative

2018-03-10 Thread am
I just finished setting up gnuCASH and found that after entering income (and other date ie expenses, etc) it shows up as negative(in parenthesis). This would mean a negative income? Why would it not show as expected - POSITIVE income since there was no loss. Is this how accounting works? What am