If you are paying rent it is a debit. If you are a landlord receiving rent its a credit.
I have never had to use a credit or debit card and I have rented numerous places in Ohio for about 7 years.
rent due to landlord
Yes, when you swipe your card just select credit as form of payment and not debit
I will give two examples but first I will give the original transaction then the "adjusting entry" that would be used.Prepaid Rent, many businesses that "rent" their buildings prepay for months at a time. Say you pay $5,000 a month for rent and you pay Six Months in Advance. It first goes on the books as follows.Prepaid Rent (Debit) $30,000Cash (credit) $30,000After the first month when the company reconciles their books, they need to show that one month of this rent has been "used up", this is an adjusting entry and is as followsRent Expense (debit) $5,000 (we only used one month)Prepaid Rent (credit) $5,000This "adjustment" is made monthly.The second one I will use isYour company purchased a computer on account. When you purchased the computer on account it became an account payable. You decide to make a payment toward the balance you owe, this will go in as an adjusting entry. The accounts would beAccount Payable (debit)Cash (credit)An adjusting entry is just what it's called, an entry to "adjust" an previous entry to it's current or new state. If you never adjusted entries, such as accounts payable, prepaid expense, etc, then your books would be inaccurate.
It appears in the debit column since you have + resources for the next X number of months.
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[Debit] Rent Expense[Credit] Rent payableWhen rent paid[Debit] Rent payable[credit] Cash / bank
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I say it is a debit
Journal Entry for Rent Received:[Debit] Rent Received[Credit] Cash/bankJournal entry for rent receivable[Debit] Accounts Receivable[Credit] Rent Receivable
Prepaid Rent is an asset, therefore to decrease the asset (or use up the rent) a decrease would be a credit. Assets generally maintain a debit balance, which means to increase the balance we debit and to decrease the balance we credit.
Rent expense has a debit balance as a normal balance so increase in rent will be shown by debit to rent expense.
Debit Cash for the cash received, and credit a liability account you can call Prepaid Rent or Prepaid Deposits. Basically, you credit a liability account because you "owe" them the rent for the month they have paid for in advance. Once the month has passed, you can debit the Prepaid Rent and credit Rental Income. Or, if the prepaid rent is a deposit made, you just keep it on your books as a liability until the end of their lease, at which time they will either be refunded the deposit (debit Prepaid Rent, credit Cash) or if they don't pay their last month's rent you can use the deposit (debit Prepaid Rent, credit Rental Income).
All revenues has credit balances as default balance like wise rent revenue also has credit balance as default balance instead of debit balance because all expenses has debit as default balance.