Re: Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

Keith, The use of debit and credit is usually a little bit confusing until you get a handle on the basic mathematics behind double entry accounting. The actual meaning of a debit (or credit) depends upon the type of account it is acting upon. The whole basis of double entry accounting is based on

Re: Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

Keith, The "Transfer" column isn't ever going to go away. It's fundamental to the concept of double-entry bookkeeping as GnuCash implements it. Double-entry bookkeeping tracks flows of value, and the transfer column says what the other side of the flow is. As for debit and credit, roughly

Re: Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

With regard to Debit/Credit: common use of these terms is not the same as use in formal accounting. Take a look at the Guide beginning at https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-accounting1.html

Re: Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

Keith, I unchecked "Use Formal Accounting Labels" in the Preferences Accounts tab. This confused me as well, but the new "Deposit" "Withdrawal" make a lot more sense to me. I'm interested to hear how this is correct in accounting speak. Michael On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Keith Winans

Basic Register - Removing Unwanted Columns

I only want to use the gnucash register to keep track of my deposits and payments. I would like to remove 'Num, Transfer, and R' from the list of columns. Is there any way to do this? Also, the Debit and Credit columns seem to me to be backward. I enter a deposit in the Credit column and it