[GNC] GnuCash 3.9 still has problems with Budget ?

[Phil Longstaff]

True. However, the problem is that the budget report shows a payment to a
liability as negative. So, unless the budget amount is also negative, the
"diff" column is incorrect.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:12 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Negative from the perspective of the source account, not from the
> perspective of the liability. The same is true of expenses.
>
> In the budget module, your amounts should all be positive for
> savings(assets), income, expenses and payments on liabilities.
>
> 1. Budget your income
> 2. Budget the following based on priorities
>   a. Expenses
>   b. Liability Payments
>   c. Savings (or other asset acquisitions)
> 3. Enter every number as positive
>
> Observe that the total remaining to be budgeted increases when you budget
> positive income.
> Observe that the total remaining to be budgeted decreases when you budget
> positive anything else.
>
> I just tested this on 3.9 and it works as expected.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 31, 2020 w14d91, at 8:45 PM, Long <Phamhoanglongvn at outlook.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > When you made a payment to liability, the amount are negative.
> >
> > Regards
>
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