[GNC] GnuCash 3.9 still has problems with Budget ?

[Christopher Lam]

No, the budget editor is still buggy. This is why we really need beta
testers.

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, 3:38 am Adrien Monteleone, <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I get the same thing. Looks like a bug in the Budget Report then. I’m
> going to hazard that perhaps rather than budgeting a single amount with a
> sign, the module should allow for budgeting debits and credits separately.
> That way there is never a sign confusion or an issue with the reverse
> balance accounts setting. But that would require a major re-write of the
> Budget Module. It is probably easier to fix the report.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Apr 1, 2020 w14d92, at 10:24 AM, Phil Longstaff <
> phil.longstaff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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