When you first purchase new equipment, you need to debit the specific equipment (ie, asset) account. And, credit the account you pay for the asset from.A purchase credit journal entry is recorded in the company's purchase journal when buying goods or services on credit from a third party. If the asset is nondepreciable, Florida PALM bypasses the Calculate Depreciation process and completes the Create Accounting Entries process. In this video I go over the accounting basics of how to make Journal Entries out of transactions that would happen in a business. Since an increase in a liability account is a credit, your debit (asset) is the bank's credit (liability).