[GNC] I can't get the budget feature to work.

[Lorrie Laskey]

Hi,

I don't understand what you mean by "top-level account" and "one account
type". Can you give me examples?

I don't understand much of gnucash despite reading the articles and
watching tutorials.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:02 AM <wheelercsg-lists at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lorrie,
>
> I've seen this problem in GnuCash 2.6; I don't know whether it has
> changed in 3.x:
>
> Make sure that you have only one account of type Expense and one account
> of type Asset at the top level of your accounts. If you have more than
> one, then the budget function doesn't work as you've described.
>
> You can check this by going to the Accounts tab, right-clicking (in
> Windows, might be different on a Mac?) on each top-level account, and
> selecting "Edit Account". This will open an options window for the
> account. The account type is at the lower left.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On 2019-01-24 1:43 a.m., gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:09:49 -0800
> > From: Lorrie Laskey<lrlaskey at gmail.com>
> > To:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: [GNC] I can't get the budget feature to work.
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I created a 12 -period 2019 budget and entered child-level expenses and
> > income.
> >
> > The expenses have a total in the spreadsheet but are not showing up at
> the
> > bottom of the spreadsheet. Expenses still display as "0".
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
>