One of your best friends has just started an accounting course at university. After his first lesson on ‘double-entry accounting’, your friend approaches you and says: “I don’t understand why the banks use the term ‘credit’ when you deposit cash in your bank account because cash is an asset, and increase in cash should be ‘debit’, not ‘credit’. I think the banks are misusing the word ‘credit’. It doesn’t comply with double-entry accounting.”

Do you agree with your friend? Explain.