Understanding Debits and Credits

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This section explains the effect of posting debit and credit entries against the different areas of the general ledger.

 

Type

Debit

Credit

Asset

Increases

Decreases

Liability

Decreases

Increases

Income

Decreases

Increases

Expense

Increases

Decreases

 

Further information

Accounts Security

Account Inquiry

Clear the Historical Balancing Account

Credit Cards

Creditors

Debtors

Advanced Creditors

Suggested End Of Month Procedures

End of Financial Year

Enter a Capital Asset

Enter Child Support Payments

Enter Government Support Payments

Purchase a Capital Asset Under Finance

General Journals

General Ledger

GST Sessions and the BAS

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Multicurrency Revaluations

Record Debtors/Creditors Contras

Rounding Issues

Sell a Company Asset

Set up a Loan Account

ATO Reportable Sub-Contractor Payments

Share Utility Expenses with other Businesses

Transaction Journal

Use Debtors and Creditors Adjustments

Recover Bad Debts

Withhold Tax

Write off a Bad Debt

Write off Fixed Asset

Work with Tax Codes in Jim2