Debits and Credits: What Are They?
The company’s Cash account is not credited by the $3000 because it did not pay the employees yet, rather, the credit is recorded in the liability account Wages Payable. Take, for instance, a company paying $800 on the 1st of May for the month of May rent. Because cash was paid out, the asset account Cash will be credited and another account will have to be debited. Since the rent paid will be used up in the current month...