Of these, Wells, Fargo, Livingston and McKay were also on the board of American Express. Financier Edwin B. Morgan of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, was appointed Wells Fargo's first president. They commenced business May 20, 1852, the day their announcement appeared in The New York Times.
A more specific definition in common use is an account with a balance that is the opposite of the normal balance (Dr/Cr) for that section of the general ledger. An example is an office coffee fund: Expense Coffee (Dr) may be immediately followed by Coffee-employee contributions (Cr).
An account is the basic information storage unit in accounting. Changes in assets, liabilities and equity items are recorded chronologically in accounts. There are separate accounts for each asset, each liability and each equity item. Accounts have account title and a reference number unique to them. Account title describes the type of asset, liability or equity represented by that account. The T-Account is the most common type of accounts and it is easy to begin the study of accounting with T-Account. A T-Account resembles the English letter T. The word debit and credit simply mean left and right side respectively.