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akersten on Aug 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accounting For Developers, Part I

> A credit entry will always increase the balance of a credit normal account and decrease the balance of a debit normal account. Put differently:

Not sure if the author is reading comments here, but the diagram after this sentence shows the opposite!

selljamhere on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

I noticed this, too. The summary bullets at the end of the post also oppose the diagram. Probably a simple mixup of credit/debit in the left column. The rest of the article usually lists do it first.

lucasrocha259 on Aug 17, 2022 | | [–]

Author here. We just pushed out a fix. Thank you for flagging!

stocknoob on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

Yes, that was quite confusing. Thanks for mentioning.

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