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

[Lorrie Laskey]

Mystery solved.

I did as you suggested and went through all of my account types and their
child accounts and did have some that were not categorized properly.
Voila! The budget now works.

I would like to suggest some kind of user help when issues arise. If the
budget is not working, possibly an error message or a popup with helpful
suggestions or a bug report popup.

Back to the budget, I am looking forward to testing my budget this year and
making wiser money choices and putting some money aside for special
purchases. Having my money under control is such a comforting feeling.

Thanks to the creators of this wonderful tool.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:37 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlaskey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> > Message-ID:
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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?
>>
>>