[GNC] Budgets: Income and Expense Signs

[Adrien Monteleone]

You aren't necessarily missing anything. (stylesheets are not a factor) 
Signage in budgets has been a mess for some time. Changes were made a 
few years ago to bring some consistency to it, but *not* to make it 
behave like the rest of GnuCash. (at least from my understanding)

You might have to read over the relevant bug reports and various threads 
here on the list to get a gist of the intended behavior. If you find it 
isn't still working as designed, then perhaps file a bug.

If it is working as designed, but that is problematic or confusing, then 
perhaps file an RFE. (Request For Enhancement)

My apologies for lack of a more specific or detailed reply. I'm well 
behind in my accounting workflow and am months away from being caught-up 
enough to test out budgets to confirm your findings in the current version.

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/3/25 12:41 PM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I see that in the budget report, any item that is less than the budgeted
> value is shown as negative (red in some stylesheets). On income /
> investment accounts this works as expected,
> If budgeted income was $100 and actual was $80 the difference is -$20 i.e.
> perceived as lower net assets.
> 
> However when an expense item is budgeted for $100, and actual amount is
> $80, this difference should be counted the other way around - i.e. $20.
> 
> However, gnucash shows these "lower" expenses in negative/red just like
> "lower" income/asset values. Since gnucash knows the account type, my
> understanding is that is should calculate expense and income differences in
> the budget in opposite ways.
> 
> Am I missing something here?