Supplies: debit or credit?

Supplies 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)Supplies
Spain (PGC 2007)328 Material de oficina
France (PCG 2025)3225 Fournitures de bureau
Germany (generic accounts)—

Practice entries that use this account