How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 3 maart 2017 19:15:40 CET schreef Larry:
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> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> Date: 2017-03-03  02:30  (GMT-08:00)
> To: lejohnston <lejohnston at dccnet.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?
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> Op woensdag 1 maart 2017 13:13:33 CET schreef lejohnston:
> > Geert,
> > 
> > I have gone back and made entries in a test file.
> > 
> > First to you question of how to enter the scenerio in the budget: I think
> > both should be positive numbers. The Asset would then cancel the
> > Liability.
> 
> How do you come to this conclusion ?
> 
> My budget balances if I do it this way, which is what I expect it should do.

A fair conclusion unless it's the code that calculates the totals that's using 
the wrong sign assumptions. That's what I'm wondering about.

Geert