Krediteres

Krediteres is a Danish verb meaning "to be credited" or "to credit," used in accounting, banking, and finance. The form krediteres is the present tense in the passive voice, indicating that the action is performed on the subject rather than by the subject.

In Danish accounting, to krediteres denotes that a credit entry is recorded in an account. In double-entry bookkeeping, credits increase liabilities, equity, or revenue, and they decrease assets or expenses. The term is commonly used when describing adjustments, refunds, or revenue recognitions that affect the credit side of an account. For example, fakturaen krediteres med 1.000 DKK means the invoice is credited for 1,000 Danish kroner.

In practical use, krediteres appears in invoices, credit notes, and account reconciliations. It can describe actions such as issuing a credit for a returned item, applying a credit to a customer’s balance, or reversing an earlier charge. In banking, funds that are deposited or otherwise credited to an account are said to krediteres to the account holder’s balance.

Language note: krediteres derives from the verb kreditere (to credit), which comes from the Latin root for belief or trust in financial credit, and it shares cognates with similar terms in other Scandinavian languages.

Overall, krediteres denotes the act of recording or recognizing a credit in an account, reflecting increases on the credit side of bookkeeping or the act of adding funds to an account in banking.