# Examples of negative balances

**URL:** <https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/examples-of-negative-balances/638>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 4, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/examples-of-negative-balances/638 "2025-10-04T10:20:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ooker](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.plaintextaccounting.org/ooker/32/251_2.png) [@Ooker](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/Ooker)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/examples-of-negative-balances/638/3 "2025-10-07T03:33:54Z")

</div>

> [@simonmic](#):
>
> It's worth also surveying the existing docs and examples, on the PTA site also, for anything similar to build on or consolidate.

Can you give the links to the examples? I don't see it anywhere

> [@](#):
>
> ```auto
> 2025-09-29 debt interest paid
> debt:credit:card:interest -2000
> debt:credit:card 2000
> 
> ```

I mean when you have loan interest in credit card, it automatically be a part of the loan. For example, say your current loan is 10000, and the interest for that is 2000, then your new loan is 12000. Does that make sense?

Btw, I see a related discussion here: [Toward a more intuitive input syntax for plain text accounting](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/toward-a-more-intuitive-input-syntax-for-plain-text-accounting/197)

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/examples-of-negative-balances/638)._