Accounting and Database design, storing debit and credit amount

Question

QUESTION: In the case below should I have stored all my amount as positives decimal amounts then flag the amount as either being a \"Debit\" or \"Credit\" rather than storing d

Answer 1

I work with the Sage Timberline accounting system and it saves debits as positive amounts and credits as negative amounts. In all reports, including the Trial Balance, you do debits + credits. Then you do negative debits for debit reversals and positive credits for credit reversals. Works fine