Christopher Browne writes:
> a) To try to conform with the usual conventions of accounting, with
> either "debits and credits," in _two_ columns,...
> My bias, personally, would be to go with a), with the hope that the
> regularity of its behaviour is something that users can grow to
> recognize.
Yes. It should be possible for the register code to notice that one column
or the other is empty and suppress it. Thus most of the time we would see
this:
Balance
-------
Debit
or this:
Balance
-------
Credit
And only occasionally this:
Balance
-------
Debit | Credit
|
|
I suspect that the "normal balance" notation results partly from
bookkeepers trying to conserve paper and ink.
It might be better to try to educate the users than to try to hide reality
from them, and I think that in the long run they will find the T account
notation easier to understand than the normal balance one.
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John Hasler
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
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