Budget reports show current income as negative value

[Adrien Monteleone]

Marcin,

Sorry for the tangent, but one of your previous replies indicated you didn’t think both your checking account and income account should increase when you get paid. I was just trying to clear that up.

Since you say all is well with debits and credits, then the issue as I noted before and Edward also noted would be to check your setting for Reverse Balance Accounts and make sure it is NOT set to “none.” Of course you can keep it that way, but doing so means Income accounts will normally show as negative balances since they are credit type accounts.

However, you keep saying that the Budget Report is wrong, yet the pictures you posted are of the Budget Bar chart. The Budget Report is something else entirely. Indeed, I ran a Budget Bar chart on my budget and the income values are negative. That would be fine if the Budget worked in a way that you enter projected income also as a negative, but ideally the Budget Bar chart graph code should be fixed as nothing else about the budget works that way and people normally think of receiving money as a positive, not a negative value.

If this is the issue, then indeed, you’ve discovered a bug and should report it on Bugzilla.

Try running a Budget Report (located in the same menu as the Budget Bar chart at the bottom). Do your income numbers show properly as positive?

-Adrien


> On Apr 7, 2017, at 8:51 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 18:04:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: marcin <mep at hot.pl>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Budget reports show current income as negative value
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> Dear Mike and Adrien.
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> 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> 
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> Regards,
>