Budget, expense issue

[David T.]

OK, so now it’s clear you’re using the budget features, so I will repeat my admission of incomplete knowledge of the budget features. I will ask one more question, and then hope that someone with better budgeting experience can help out further.

You say “figures you enter for an expense account.” Do you mean that you are changing figures in the budget itself, or that you are entering transactions into your accounts? If you are referring to the former, my experience doesn’t match yours. That is, when I go in to my budget and change a budget value for an expense account, the totals change. If you are referring to the latter, then I will repeat that the budget isn’t intended to change when you enter actual transactions into GnuCash. There are reports that you can run that will show you both your budgeted amount and the actual transactional totals side by side.

David

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 10:58 PM, Schuyler Kelley <zalethon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am using version Bodhi linux -- an Ubuntu-based OS -- and version 2.6.4 of gnucash, the latest version in Ubuntu's repositories. (14.04 Trusty, apparently)
> 
> I am referring to the budgeting feature. When you open a budget, and enter figures for various accounts, there's a running total along the bottom of the window.
> 
> If it's permitted to send an image to the mailing list, I'll send a screenshot along? I can more easily show you what I see than tell you.
> 
> After 'a while,' figures I enter for an expense account are no longer included in any meaningful way in those totals. I can't figure out how to reproduce the problem consistently, unfortunately, so 'a while' is about as specific as it gets...
> 
> Schuyler
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:34 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> Schuyler,
> 
> Welcome aboard.
> 
> I am afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean by your “budgets stop totalling after a while.” Are you  in fact referring to the GnuCash budgets features, or perhaps you are using that term to mean some other aspect of the program?
> 
> If it is in fact an issue with budgets, I will probably not be able to help you out (since I am woefully inept with GnuCash’s budgeting features). I do believe that a given budget uses established amounts that you must explicitly change, which makes sense, since they are meant to reflect your goals in particular areas. I am not sure which totals you’d refer to in that area, though, so perhaps you see something I do not.
> 
> However, perhaps you are referring to something else in the program, and I might be able to explain things better then. Where exactly are you seeing these totals? What is this window named? How are you calling these totals up? How are they not totaling? What numbers are you expecting to see?
> 
> And finally, which version of GnuCash are you using, and what operating system are you on?
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> > On Oct 29, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Schuyler Kelley <zalethon at gmail.com <mailto:zalethon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've started using gnucash over the last week and a half for my personal
> > finances.
> >
> > I have a problem: for each file I create, the budgets stop totaling
> > correctly after a while.
> > At the bottom, the Expenses are not totaled at all! Everything else works
> > fine, expenses don't even show up.
> > The only solution has been to create a new file entirely, which is
> > obviously frustrating and useless...
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this issue, and discovered a solution? I can't
> > find a bug report in bugzilla, and I haven't found any similar experiences
> > in the mailing list archives either.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Schuyler
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