[GNC] credit account negative balance increases with payment

[Custom Shots]

That's exactly what I'm saying.  I owe $500. That's a negative balance in
my credit card account, showing in red with a minus sign. I enter a payment
of $200 and the negative balance increases to -$700. The negative balance
should decrease to -$300. Yet the other half of the transaction correctly
withdraws $200 from cash.
I did play with the settings when I decided I liked seeing what I owed as
red negative numbers.

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 11:54 AM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2023-03-04 10:26, Custom Shots wrote:
> > I just noticed this. Something has changed. I keep 30 day backups and
> this
> > has been going on in all my backups. When I add a payment transaction to
> my
> > credit card account the negative balance increases instead of decreasing.
> > Any clues to what is happening? I am using GnuCash Version: 4.8 Build ID:
> > 4.8a+(2021-09-28) on Ubuntu 2022.04.2. The second half of the double
> entry
> > transaction, the withdrawal from my checking account, works correctly.
>
> Presumably by "correctly" you mean that the positive balance of the cash
> or checking account goes down? If so, I agree with you that it's
> correct: a credit to an asset account reduces the balance of that
> account. (Paying someone is a credit to cash, and getting money from
> someone is a debit to cash.)
>
> You might take a look in Edit » Preferences » Accounts, under "Reverse
> Balanced Accounts". I can't remember the details from when I set up my
> data file a few years ago, but I do remember that on experimenting with
> those settings the only one that _didn't_ give nonsensical results was
> "Credit accounts".  (I mean nonsensical to me; I'm sure the developers
> must have had some good reason for those other settings.)
>
> Are you saying something like: the balance on your Visa account was
> minus $200, and you paid $65, and now the balance is minus $265 instead
> of the expected minus $135? That would be wrong under any circumstances,
> as far as I can understand. Or did you mean it literally that the
> account balance "increases", since minus $135 is greater than minus
> $200? If that's what you meant, then everything is correct except that
> the credit-card account is showing a minus sign in front of correct
> balances, and for that I'd definitely have a look at "Reverse Balanced
> Accounts".
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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