Budget reports show current income as negative value

[Edward Doolittle]

Hi Marcin,

What is your setting for Edit -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Reverse
Balanced Accounts? Most people have it set to Credit Accounts, which is
what I have it set to.

With that setting, I can't reproduce your results. I just opened a new
GnuCash file, created a budget with a $1000 income in Income:Salary for
this month, closed the budget, then entered a transaction from
Income:Salary to Assets:Checking in the amount of $1200. Everything looks
normal on my budget report. I don't know where you are getting the graphs
from; perhaps you can post a screenshot of the entire screen instead of
just the small graphs.

(On the other hand, if I set Edit -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Reverse
Balanced Accounts to None, I do get some crazy stuff on the budget report.
I can barely wrap my head around it. I think I understand what's going on,
but basically, it's wrong. I strongly suggest you don't try to use the
budget features with that setting.)

There is one negative number on the budget report: the difference between
actual and projected in my Assets:Checking. That would be - in budgeted
Assets:Checking, and 1200 actual, for a difference of -1200. Is that what
you're talking about?

That, I'll admit, is a little counterintuitive, especially since the
Income:Salary line has +200. The differences are the wrong way around in at
least one of the lines.

The developers are looking into issues related to the budget and budget
reports. Before the reports can be fixed, the budget module needs a bug
fix. Then we can turn to the budget reports.

In the mean time, the budget stuff will work better if you have Edit ->
Preferences -> Accounts -> Reverse Balanced Accounts set to Credit Accounts.

Edward

On 7 April 2017 at 19:04, marcin <mep at hot.pl> wrote:

> Dear Mike and Adrien.
>
> Thank you very much for your kind advice and instructions about double
> entry
> accounting. However I think that this discussion goes to wrong direction.
> All my reports and charts are showing correct value for my income. It is
> positive value which reflects on my register entry. That income entry
> increases my balance. The only problem is with budget reports which somehow
> show the same income as negative value. Please see two pictures. One of
> them
> shows all the values correctly (income, spending, profit) but second one is
> budget report which shows budgeted income vs real income (exactly the same
> income). And in this case real income is presented as negative value, what
> does not make any sense to me.
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4690903/
> Income_spendings_profit.jpg>
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4690903/
> Income_budgeted_real.jpg>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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First Nations University of Canada
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