I think we're talking past each other but I'm not sure how to rectify.
Given a debit of $500 and two matching credits of $250 how is the owner's equity position affected?
A programmer, unfamiliar with accounting, might think that "debit" and "credit" carry enough meaning in this context to answer the question.
You and I know that without knowing what account types are being debited and credited we have no way of explaining what the managerial result of that entry is. That's an unanswerable question w/o more context. That's my point.
Given a debit of $500 and two matching credits of $250 how is the owner's equity position affected?
A programmer, unfamiliar with accounting, might think that "debit" and "credit" carry enough meaning in this context to answer the question.
You and I know that without knowing what account types are being debited and credited we have no way of explaining what the managerial result of that entry is. That's an unanswerable question w/o more context. That's my point.