On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 01:14, John Clark via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Because these terms ‘never make sense’, as seen by this example. It is far > more simpler to just say, money coming in, on the left, money going out on > the right… or is the other way around...
Money moves from right to left, that is one of the immutable laws of natrure (at least in the universe of Gnucash). It may have been mentioned before but in Settings > Accounts there is a checkbox, Use formal accounting labels. If you clear that then the headings on bank accounts say withdrawal and deposit, and on Credit card accounts say Charge and Payment, which I find much easier to cope with. The reason we have so much trouble with the words debit and credit is that we are used to seeing them on the bank statement and such like, so we have got used to them apparently meaning the opposite of what they really mean when looked at from our own point of view, rather than the bank's. Colin _______________________________________________ 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.
