Hi, David, I did try using both Increase/Decrease and Debit/Credit labeling in the register, but the transaction report is unchanged.
I also saw an option in Preferences for Reversing either Credit Accounts, or Income & Expense Accounts, or None. I really have no idea what that is about, but GC seems to have been supplied with Credit Accounts selected, so I thought I'd try with None. It didn't change the transaction report, so I set it back to Credit Accounts. I'll RTFM on that sometime, but it doesn't appear to have anything to do with this... Possible GC bug? -P. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 10:52 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter > I do agree the Debit and Credit column headers appear to be reversed on the > Transaction Report in your original post . I have just run a Transaction > report > (GC 4.11) on one of my bank accounts and it reports my income (payments > into > the account) correctly as debits and expenses (payments from the account) > as > credits. I thought it could possibly be related to the use of the > non-accounting > labels which I tend to use rather than the informal headers. I have just > changed > to the informal headers in my preferences and rerun the transaction report > and > the column headers are still correct so that does not appear to be the > problem. > Did that transaction come out with debits and credits correctly in the > account > register when you selected the formal accounting labels preference? > David Cousens > > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 19:35 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I made up the name "transaction entry" because I didn't know what to call > > it. 😊 I didn't know there was such a thing as a transaction entry > window. > > > > If I had the Donations account open, I would have had the same kind of > > problem. > > > > Per Gyle's suggestion it looks like I can switch to the good old Credit / > > Debit labels. > > > > Also, the second part of my question involved the Transaction report. > There > > the headings at the top seem backwards. They are labeled Credit and > Debit, but > > where I entered a Debit, it appears in the Credit column and vice > versa. Any > > comment on this? > > > > -P. > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 6:23 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > The terms Increase and Decrease in the header only apply to the account > > > whose > > > > > > register you have open not to the accounts which are the target of the > > > > > > individual split(entry) of the transaction and not to the account > which is > > > > > > designated in the second split. It would appear that you have the > register > > > for > > > > > > your checking account open and a debit entry is an Increase in that. > If > > > there > > > > > > was a credit split/entry to your checking account it would appear in > the > > > > > > decrease column. The second line of the transaction is the > corresponding > > > credit > > > > > > entry to the revenue account. This is why we accountants find the > headers > > > > > > Increase/Decrease confusing. > > > > > > > > > > > > You are not making entries in a "transaction entry" window in GnuCash > but > > > you > > > > > > are performing the transaction entry directly into the register for > that > > > account > > > > > > itself. > > > > > > > > > > > > David Cousens > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 17:13 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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. 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