Negative numbers have no place* in accounting, and people need to stop thinking "oh, credits are just negative numbers" and hopelessly confusing themselves and others by putting nonsensical signs on an unsigned magnitude of flux.
* you can actually think of oddball reasons you might consider a "negative credit/debit", but it's more akin to something like a negative mass in physics
* you can actually think of oddball reasons you might consider a "negative credit/debit", but it's more akin to something like a negative mass in physics