Edit Scheduled Transaction: debits/credits labels backward

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Mon Jan 2 14:43:58 EST 2017


Ah.. nevermind this.  I had forgotten that the sense of debit and credit
were reversed for asset accounts.

On 2 January 2017 at 14:28, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:

> Using GnuCash 2.6.13, when editing a new scheduled transaction I see the
> following odd behaviour.
>
> In the Template Transaction tab, the spreadsheet see first is for editing
> the description and notes.  The funds columns on the right hand side are
> (from left to right) "Tot Funds In" and "Tot Funds Out".
>
> When I move down to the action row for the transaction, the funds columns'
> labels change to "Debit Formula" and "Credit Formula" respectively.
>
> The meanings reverse themselves.
>
> I'm setting up automated transfers from a bank account to sub accounts to
> reserve funds for projects.  If I set up a debit of 800.00 from
> Assets:Current Assets:Chequing Account to credit "Assets:Current:Assets:Chequing
> Account:Reserved Fund" 800.00, when I run the transaction it does the
> reverse.
>
> Viewing the scheduled transaction it goes back to showing me the Tot Funds
> In/Out and that shows funds moving from Reserved Fund to Chequing Account
> (which is what actually happened).
>
> This looks like a field labelling bug when editing the action in a
> scheduled transaction.
>


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