Assuming you're talking about drawings on a bank account... they're debits. You are drawing funds out of the account - reducing the available balance.
Drawings A/c (debit) TO Asset A/c (credit)
While it's a credit to your account, it's a debit to the Salary & Remuneration account of your Employer.
Drawings has debit balance as a normal balance that's why it is increased by debit and reduced by credit.
Drawings in accounting are recorded as a double entry in the cash book. This is a credit to the bank account and a debit to the cash account.
[Debit] Capital Account xxxx [Credit] Drawings xxxx
Drawings A/c (debit) TO Asset A/c (credit)
While it's a credit to your account, it's a debit to the Salary & Remuneration account of your Employer.
Drawings has debit balance as a normal balance that's why it is increased by debit and reduced by credit.
Drawings in accounting are recorded as a double entry in the cash book. This is a credit to the bank account and a debit to the cash account.
[Debit] Capital Account xxxx [Credit] Drawings xxxx
debit drawings 3000credit office expense 3000
[Debit] Drawings account xxxx [Credit) Cash account xxxx
It would be a credit to bank and a debit to the capital account. Most of the time there will be a drawings account, but it will be by the capital in the balance sheet.
it is because drawings are money taken out from business.....so its a debit....and also its debit in statement of financial position.
[Debit] Drawings account xxxx [Credit] Purchases account xxxx
As for as the meanings of debit and credit is concerned, in accounting it has no specific meanings. Rauther they reflect the situation as follows Debit is a situation where assets, expenses, drawings and losses are increased OR Liabilities, capital , revenue or profit are decreased. Credit is a situation when assets, expenses, drawings and losses are decreased OR Liabilities, capital , revenue or profit is increased. the above statement can be mentined as folows. __________________________________________ Dr. Cr. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Assets Expense Drawings + (-) Losses Capital Liabilities (-) + ___________________________________________ submitted by nadeemlatifkhan.com Nadeem Latif Khan, SIalkot. PAkistan Revenue Profits
Drawings account is contra account to owner’s capital account to reduce the amount from capital account in case of owner with drawl of money from business that’s why it also has debit balance as default balance.