Notes Receivable: debit or credit?

Notes Receivable 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)Notes Receivable
Spain (PGC 2007)431 Clientes, efectos comerciales a cobrar
France (PCG 2025)413 Clients - Effets à recevoir
Germany (generic accounts)Besitzwechsel

Practice entries that use this account