[GNC] Budget Report Liability "Act" VS Liability Report "Delta"

[Christopher Lam]

If this is the case, then this is very likely a genuine bug and would need
a test data file, sample reports in Bugzilla.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, 9:58 pm Charles Crossan, <crossan007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe I found the answer to this.
>
> The Budget report (and the Transaction Report) are showing the "expected"
> values for changes to liability account balances - how much debt I actually
> paid off this month.
>
> The Net Worth Report (and Liabilities Over Time Report) also show "arguably
> correct" values for changes to liability account balances - How much debt I
> added this month; ignoring any payments I made on the first day of the
> month.
>
> The discrepancy arises when transactions occur on the reporting boundary
> days.  For instance, If I apply a $2,000 payment to a credit card on the
> first of the month, and then spend $500 on that card throughout the month,
> the Budget Report (and the Transaction Report) will show that a decrease of
> that credit card account by $2,000; however, the Net Worth (and Liabilities
> Over Time) report will show a Liability increase of $500.
>
> It would seem that the Time-series reports use the balance of the accounts
> at the "end of the day" for the reporting period boundaries(i.e. including
> transactions from the beginning boundary day); whereas the
> transaction-tracking reports use actual ingress and egress values from
> transactions against the account during the reporting periods.
>
> Is there a way to adjust the behavior of Time-Series reports so that they
> choose the balance from before the first transaction of the reporting
> period (and after the last transaction of the end of the reporting period)?
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 8:47 PM Charles Crossan <crossan007 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've been using GNUCash (gratefully, and happily) for 10 years, and this
> > is my first time reaching out to the mailing list.
> >
> > I recently noticed that the "Budget Report" for the current period shows
> a
> > different "Act" value for "changes in Liabilities" than the
> > manually-calculated liability delta from the "Net Worth Report" or the
> > "Liability report" (using the same set of accounts) for the same
> one-month
> > period.
> >
> > For instance, budget report "act" says "Liabilities Decreased by $1500",
> > but the liabilities report says " Liabilities  increased by $3500"
> >
> > I feel like my comprehension of accounting is betraying me.  How is this
> > possible?  Has anyone else seen something like this before?
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Charles Crossan
> > @crossan007 <https://twitter.com/crossan007>
> > 215-804-9851
> > https://www.ccrossan.com
> >
> >
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
>
> Charles Crossan
> @crossan007 <https://twitter.com/crossan007>
> 215-804-9851
> https://www.ccrossan.com
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