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posted on 7 Nov 2007 by Graham P Davis
I would like to add:

It's worrying enough that such a person doesn't seem to know which way is up
but I was more worried to find that my bank gets similarly confused. I was
checking my bank statement the other day and, for the first time, noticed
that payments into my account were listed in the credit column and
withdrawals were in the debit column. Luckily there's not an error in the
arithmetic.

That's normal business accounting, payments in are credited - i.e.
added, and withdrawals are debited - i.e. subtracted; no problem, of
course the arithmetic was correct.

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