"Ralf Gorholt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But, if I look at the master or parent account which also displays
> the categories, all that what should appear under debit appears
> under credit and vice versa.
Let's say you write a check for "food", and pay it from the "checking"
account. In the "checking" register, you should see the amount of the
check in the right (withdrawal) column. In the "food" account, you
should see the amount in the left (deposit) column. You are
withdrawing money from your "bank" account and putting it into your
"food" account.
I suspect what's confusing you is the column labels. In the
US-English localized version of Gnucash, the left column in a Bank
account register is labeled "Deposit" and the right "Withdrawal"; in
Expense account registers (which is what the "food" account should be)
the left column is "Expense" and the right "Rebate".
If you have the "use accounting labels" option set in
Preferences:General, you will see the label "Credit" on the right
column and "Debit" on the left column for all account types. That's
because accountants refer to a withdrawal from an asset account as a
"credit" and a deposit to an asset account as a "debit". This is
reversed from many people's common sense understanding of "credit" and
"debit", which is why it's an option that you have to explicitly set
if you want to see labels that way; however, it is the correct usage.
If you are seeing "credit" and "debit" in the column headings, make
sure you have "use accounting labels" off and you'll probably see
something that makes more sense to you.
Bill Gribble
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