Buildings: debit or credit?

Buildings increases on the debit side and decreases on the credit side: its normal balance is a debit.

Assets are resources the business controls. They increase with a debit.

Name in each convention

Account names and codes follow each convention; an account that does not exist in a convention is not offered there.

ConventionAccount
United States (US textbooks)Buildings
Spain (PGC 2007)211 Construcciones
France (PCG 2025)213 Constructions
Germany (generic accounts)Gebäude

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