[GNC] GnuCash 3.9 still has problems with Budget ?

[Jim Passmore]

Long,
Just started to look at 3.9 myself.  There have been some updates to the
budgeting module and it looks like you should now enter outflows to credit
cards and similar accounts as positive.  In that case, I think your
remaining amount will be zero.  Putting in a negative "outflow" to
liability is like taking a $100 cash advance.  You then have $200 to budget
(the remaining $100 from your paycheck and the $100 cash advance).


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*Jim Passmore*jim at passmore4.com




On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:51 PM Long <Phamhoanglongvn at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using spreadsheet to budget.
>
> My Picture :  budget-3.png
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t378901/budget-3.png>
>
> In this picture, you will see that my income about 1000$, and i assume that
> i need to pay 900$ for foods or something else let me alive. And i saw that
> i still have 100$ left to use, and i want to make a payment for my credit
> card.
>
> And in this case : GnuCash Budget show me the wrong value.
> 1 - If i only have 100$ left, when i pay my debt, remaining to budget show
> be zero.
> 2 - If i want to loan more money, remaining to budget show be the amount of
> my money left + money i borrowed.
>
> By the way, for the GnuCash's Budget, I won't and maybe in the future i
> still won't.... Never use it. Because, for use it for your life, it's very
> hard and much work to do more than budget your money with spreadsheet, So
> if
> it is a bug and you are using this feature, you should report to them.
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
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