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 #2 (permalink) Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:46 am Debt vs. debit |
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Hi,
'Debit' is something that you owe. A debit card will take the amount you are paying straight from your account whereas a credit card will put the amount you pay on an account for you to pay later.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Mar 12, 2009 13:40 pm Debt vs. debit |
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'Debt' is something you already owe to someone, for example, it is a debt if you have borrowed money from the bank.
Accounting book has two sides - debit side (your withdrawals) and credit side (your deposits). With 'debit card', you debit your own account, that is, when you swipe the card, a debit entry is made on your account provided your account has that much of money.
Therefore, there is no 'debt card' :)
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Nov 12, 2009 19:36 pm Debt vs. debit |
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Howdy,
A debit card uses the money you have and a credit card uses the money you don't have. If I give you credit = you give me debit. It seems backwards but debit is a positive, credit is a negative. You incur a debt with credit, you pay it off with a debit. clear as mud ? CW |
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Oct 20, 2010 14:14 pm Debt vs. debit |
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I have a lot of traveling, we have to maintain contracts with different companies ... and it seems to me that the debit card payment method is better. If I'm wrong please explain why ... I just heard a lot about the "war" Credit card vs debit card ...
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:35 am Debt vs. debit |
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Hi,
Can anybody please explain me, why we use 'pay with cash' in first sentence.We can't directly write 'pay cash'? |
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:11 am Debt vs. debit |
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You can write 'pay cash' as an option in that sentence.
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