A debit on sales, while crediting cash means a cash refund to a customer.
A sales transactionFor a service provider, the journal entry for a cash sales transaction has a debit on cash, and a credit on sales. Assuming a sales price of $100:
cash 100 (debit)
sales 100 (credit)
A refundIf for whatever reason the customer requests (and receives) a (partial) refund, sales is reduced. The journal entry of a $30 refund would be the reverse of the above:sales 30 (debit)
cash 30 (credit)
Alternative journal entry
However, companies would normally like to keep track of the amount of refunds. Instead of using 'sales' with a refund, a different T-account is used:
sales allowances 30 (debit)
cash 30 (credit)
Sales allowances is a contra-T account to sales, and presented jointly in the income statement (sales minus sales allowances is net sales).
For a trading company, there can also be sales returns (physical return of the goods), or a T-account 'sales returns and allowances'
Debit Cash Credit Sales
Debit Cash Received Credit Income/Sales
[Debit] Sales return [Credit] Cash /bank [Debit] Sales [Credit] Sales return
Cash is "not" a credit in accounting. The cash account is an asset and is a debit balance account. To increase the cash account you debit the account and to decrease it you credit it.Cash = Current Asset = Debit Balance(GAAP)
Debit: Purchases Credit: Accounts Payable Debit: Cash Credit: Sales
[Debit] Sales Promotion expenses xxxx [Credit] Cash / bank / goods etc xxxx
[Debit] cash 2600 Credit sales 2600 Deposited to bank Debit Bank 2600 Credit Cash 2600
Debit cash / bankCredit sales revenue
Cash/Bank/Accounts Receivable [Debit] Sales[Credit]
Cash (debit)Income or Revenue (credit)A check is considered cash in accounting and is recorded as such as it is easily converted to cash (or deposited)
Cash you have deposited into a bank is credit Money to be paid back later is debit
[Debit] Theft Cash [Credit] Cash