Hi Ingo, It's conventional to record a deposit to a bank account as a debit.
Have a look at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-accounting/chapter/the-basics-of-accounting/ especially the "Perspective" section halfway down. Debits and credits can be counter-intuitive. For an income or expense account, they do what you'd expect: e.g. new income is a credit to an income account. Assets and liabilities are different - an increase in an asset is a *debit*. One think to think about this is that from the perspective of the bank, your deposit is a liability - they owe you the money and you may ask for it back in future. If they ever take out a bank fee, the transaction would have a credit to the bank account (an asset) and a debit to your bank fees account (an expense). Cheers Paul Foxworthy On 21 March 2018 at 21:33, Ingo Wolfmayr <ingo.wolfm...@wolfix.at> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding financial transaction, in detail the service > "postFinAccountTransToGl". > > When I create a "deposit" or a "withdraw" it creates the same accounting > transactions except changing the type of accounting transaction. > > Maybe I missunderstand the financial transactions. This is what I am > trying to do: > A customer made a payment 100$. The bank subtracts a fee from my account > 5$. I thought by making a transaction "withdraw" I could submit the fee to > the appropriate glaccount and subtracting it from the financial account > (2nd part is fine). > Goal: > Debit: 5$ Fees > Credit: 5$ Bank > > Current situation: > Credit: 5$ Fees > Debit: 5$ Bank > > Creating a deposit creates the same financial transactions. > > When I create an adjustment with a negativ amount, the glaccounts are on > the right side, but the value is negativ, which at the end leads to the > same result. > > I would be glad if someone could help me on this. > > Best regards, > Ingo > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Australia Phone: +61 3 9585 6788 Web: http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Email: i...@coherentsoftware.com.au
