Budget Expense Issue

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2001 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> 
> The budget expense issue sounds like bug 742352, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742352
> 
> As I state in there, make sure you only have ONE root expense account. Gnucash will not work properly in calculating the totals for the budgets if you have more than one root expense, income, asset or liability account. During imports, or if you don't balance your transactions the program often creates expense accounts called "Unspecified" that are not within the main "Expenses" tree. As a result this bug can randomly appear after you do an import or split transaction. Not a big deal - just delete the offending account, change its type to "Bank" or something like that, or move it to have the main "Expenses" account as its parent. Easy work around!
> 
> I am still working on improving the code so that we can get rid of this issue. Since I haven't programmed using the gtk much, it is slow going!
> 

If you need help, just ask. IRC (irc.gimp.net, #gnucash) is particularly useful for that sort of thing. If you prefer mail, gnucash-devel is better for technical discussions.

Regards,
John Ralls