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by akersten 1406 days ago
> 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!

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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.
Author here. We just pushed out a fix. Thank you for flagging!
Yes, that was quite confusing. Thanks for mentioning.