Posted by Jennifer Mattern on June 15, 2007 ·
One of the most fundamental, and often most confusing, aspects of basic business accounting is the distinction between debits and credits. In accounting, the ultimate goal is to have your financials balance (such as on a balance sheet). In order to balance financial records, every business transaction has both a debit and credit (if money is being added to one account, it has to be coming from somewhere [...]