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> A debit entry increases an asset account, expense account and contra revenue account and liability account, decreases revenue accounts and contra-asset accounts.
>Total debit should be equal to the total credit.
Debit and Credit are formal bookkeeping and accounting terms that have opposite meanings and come from Latin. Debit comes from debere, which means "to owe". The Latin debitum means "debt". Credit comes from the Latin word credere, which means "to believe".
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Debit is abbreviated Dr., while credit is abbreviated Cr.
"Debit" also refers to the left side of a general ledger account, while "Credit" refers to the right side. _____________________________________________________________________
A debit is also (informally) referred to as a "charge." A debit or credit changes the balance of an account. Asset and expense accounts increase in value when debited and decrease when credited, whereas liability, equity, and revenue accounts decrease in value when debited and increase when credited. This distinction is somewhat counterintuitive, until the nature of those accounts is more closely scrutinized. For example, revenue is coded as a credit. After recording a day's sales, the company will have credited a certain amount in revenue, and since credits are negative numbers, the balance grows more and more negative. An adjustment to revenue would need to be a debit, because its purpose is to bring the revenue totals closer to zero. __________________________________________________
It is often assumed that a debit decreases a balance, and a credit increases it, because this is how the terms are used on bank statements and using a debit card decreases the balance in one's bank account. However, this is because bank statements are traditionally written from the bank's perspective, where the customer's account is a liability. By withdrawing money, the customer is decreasing the bank's liability. Since liability accounts normally have a credit balance, the withdrawal of cash from a banking account is reflected on the bank's balance sheet as a debit.
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An accounting entry that results in either an increase in assets or a decrease in liabilities on a company's balance sheet or in your bank account. A debit on an accounting entry will have opposite effects on the balance depending on whether it is done to assets or liabilities, with a debit to assets indicating an increase and vice versa for liabilities.
DEBIT IS WHAT THE COMPANY HAVE LIKE ASSETS ,CASH, A/R ,,,,,,,,
AND IT MUST = WITH CREDIT SIDE WHEN YOU MAKE AN ENTRY
Debit >or Debit Account (Dr Side ) is every account that related to what we own
Credit > credit Account (cr Side) is every account that related to what we owes
Accounting term abreviated as Dr. It is used for bookeeping. Debit refers to increase in assets on balance sheets, reducing of liabilities, recording of expenses, reversal of return etc.
The account which receives the benefit called" debit" whereas the account which gives the benefit is called "Credit". Identification of receiving benefit is related to the transaction.
for eg: If salary paid.
Salary a/c Dr (Service received from the employee)
To Bank Account (self explanatory)
As well as if the benefit stands less than one year we can treat the items as an expense or above one year it would be an Asset.
Joshi Mathew
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Debit was comes in and credit was goes out. .