What is debit in accounting?
Debit is a formal bookkeeping and accounting term that comes from the Latin word debere, which means “to owe”. The Latin debitum means “debt”. The opposite of a debit is a credit. Debit is abbreviated Dr, while credit is abbreviated Cr. A debit changes the balance of an account. Asset and expense accounts increase in value when debited, whereas liability, equity, and revenue accounts decrease in value when debited. 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. So simply put: debit is any kind of charge to your account and anything with a (-). like : phone bill, wages and salaries paid, so simpl
