[GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Tue Oct 22 11:30:16 EDT 2019


“Transfers” = sum of amounts budgeted to Assets, Equity, or Liabilities
“Total” = Income - Expenses - Transfers

Your sign flipping strategy sounds pretty reasonable as long as it allows for the existence of some contra-balanced accounts.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 22, 2019 w43d295, at 1:16 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> I think a reasonable approach to determine a budget's sign-reversal policy
> will be:
> - if budgeted expense amounts are mostly negative, conclude "reversal =
> income/expense"
> - otherwise, if budgeted liability amounts are mostly negative, conclude
> "reversal = none"
> - otherwise conclude "reversal = credit-accounts"
> 
> The next challenge is to try fix the Budget Editor Summary section at the
> bottom. While the first 2 rows "Income" "Expense" are self-explanatory,
> anyone has any idea the exact definition for "Transfers" and "Total" ?
> 
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 16:25, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 




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