[GNC] Budgeting > transfers to liabilities and securities purchase

[Christopher Lam]

Ok. The 3.11 release will have fixed some bugs there. Please copy to list
on replies.

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, 7:04 pm Mark Walters, <mark.walters.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Christopher,  just checked and I'm running v3.4 in debian buster.
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul. 2020, 18:07 Christopher Lam, <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 1. Please use the very latest gnucash 3.11 or 4.0; if there are still
>> issues please file bug in Bugzilla.
>>
>> 2. Budget for securities is error prone; currency and share exchanges are
>> complex and not proven to be reliable in budgeting module.
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, 3:43 pm Mark Walters, <mark.walters.0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I am trying to use Gnucash budgeting and have 2 issues. I have searched
>>> the
>>> mailing list and google'd but had no luck.
>>>
>>> 1.Sign convention issues between budget, transactions and budget reports
>>> I am budgeting for transfers to a liability (mortgage repayment). To make
>>> the budget balance sheet reduce my liability, a positive number is
>>> entered
>>> in the budget under mortgage liability. But when I use the estimate
>>> function, the repayments are entered as negative numbers.
>>> i.e. a test repayment of $50k comes through to -$50k with the estimate
>>> function. But the budget balance sheet records an increase in the
>>> liability
>>> from $350k to $400k, this should be $350k to $300k. I though perhaps my
>>> liability should have a negative balance, but the transaction entry
>>> (actuals) currently decrease the liability as entered and as expected.
>>>
>>> 2. Budgeting for securities purchase
>>> I'd like to budget a certain dollar value transaction to buy shares (Say
>>> $1k). When I enter this in the budget. the totals in the budget sheet
>>> work
>>> as expected. But the budget balance sheet adds 1000 units to my holding,
>>> instead of the number of units. Understand that the future price is
>>> unknown
>>> but the calculation seems inconsistent (dollars in budget, but carried
>>> forward as units). If I enter units in the budget, the budget balance
>>> sheet
>>> works.. but then the budget doesn't sum to zero (because no price is
>>> applied to units)
>>> How do others enter this in a budget? Should I have another 'dollar'
>>> account to capture the value of the shares?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Mark Walters
>>> Email: mark.walters.0 at gmail.com
>>> Mob: 0404 305 661
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