[GNC] Budget car payment

[Dennis Powless]

I realize that Gnucash is not a budgeting tool and I don't expect it to
provide the functionality that one can get from excel or open office.  So,
I think I will just export the data to excel and do the budget/dashboard
from there. I can get what I need from the reports quite easily in gnucash.

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On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM Dennis Powless <dpowless517 at pobox.com>
wrote:

> Are there other options to export besides HTML?  Say to excel in csv or
> txt?
>
> D
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:50 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> Signs in Budgets need more testing. (I had plans to do so long ago,
>> perhaps I might get to it now as I'm way behind in my own budgeting!)
>>
>> You might have to play around a bit to see if it is possible to come up
>> with a sane entry method that produces a sane bottom line result. Or you
>> may have discovered a bug that needs fixing.
>>
>> I'll endeavor to work on my budget this week and see if I can duplicate
>> your issue.
>>
>>
>> ----
>> And no, I don't think the Budget Module docs have been updated in many
>> moons and suns.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On 1/10/24 12:12 PM, Dennis Powless wrote:
>> > I'm trying to create a budget and am having some issues with setting it
>> up.
>> > I have a liability for car loan and expense for interest for that loan.
>> >
>> > I pay out of the checking account, say 500.
>> > I split to the Liability loan 200 and expense interest 300.
>> >
>> > In a spreadsheet I would budget out 500 for the car payment.  However,
>> > Gnucash is not set up this way (or I have it wrong).
>> >
>> > The liability payment is a negative entry in the budget and the expense
>> is
>> > a positive value.
>> > The same in the "budget report" created.
>> >
>> > The help docs are not very helpful, nor are internet searches.  Most in
>> the
>> > end, state to use a separate spreadsheet for budgeting.
>> > Which I have been doing for many years, but figured I'd give it another
>> try
>> > as it's been about 9 years.
>>
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