Dylan Paul Thurston wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:34:17PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > > Surprise, you are using a double-entry ledger system :) That is, unless
> > > you are leaving all of your 'transfer from' fields blanks, all of your
> > > entries in checking account have a matching entry in an expense, income,
> > > etc. account.
> > >
> > > I suppose we could make the meaning of 'debit' and 'credit' configurable.
> > > It's really unfortunate that the informal meanings of the terms are exactly
> > > opposite the accouting meanings.
> >
> > Blame the evil bankers.
> >
> > They report things from their perspective that is exactly opposite
> > to yours.
>
> I just noticed that they (the banks) do this even in the little check
> registers they give you for your checkbook. This is guaranteed to
> confuse people.
May be this is an US only problem? I have several accounts at several german
banks and they record deposits in the "Haben" columns and withdrawels in the
"Soll" column. Haben means debit, Soll means credit. So this is perfectly
all right from my point of view.
Herbert.
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