Under "Edit/Preferences/Accounts/Labels" if you check the box you will get standard accounting labels with Debits and Credits. This may be less confusing to you than Increase and Decrease.
Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail....@gnucash.org> on behalf of Peter S. Shenkin <shen...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 5:13 PM To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org> Subject: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.11 on MacOS 11.6.8. There are two images attached, labeled Transaction entry and Transaction report. They are two different views of the same transaction, to a non profit that I am doing the books for. The transaction involves a deposit to our checking account from Wepay. It's a donation, which we account for under Revenue:Donations, which increases with a Credit, and the bank account will increase with a Debit, so this should be properly balanced. However, from the Transaction-entry screen shot, where the column labels are Increase and Decrease, I have to enter the Donation as a Decrease in order to make the Donation record increase. This is bizarre, is it not? You can see in the same image that the checking balance goes up. so it seems to be properly recorded as a debit; in addition, though not shown, the sum of Donations does goes up, which seems contrary to having to enter it as a Decrease. Now look at the second screenshot, the Transaction-report view for this transaction. What is especially strange here is that the labels of the Debit and Credit columns are exactly reversed. It says that the Checking side of the transaction is a Credit and the Donation side is a Debit, which is exactly backwards. Any insight, including any aspect due to my own foolishness and/or inexperience, would be appreciated. -P. _______________________________________________ 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.
