[GNC] Roll up accounts in budget

Jon Schewe jpschewe at mtu.net
Sun Apr 19 09:15:09 EDT 2026


Thank you for the reminder. I had run into this before. That works
great. I see that the calculated number shows up in grey and the report
is fine now.

On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 14:28 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Do not enter a value, even zero, in the parent accounts. They should 
> roll-up automatically.
> 
> If you have entered values, put focus on a parent cell and use the 
> DELETE key, then TAB out of it to clear the value properly and
> restore 
> the roll-up.
> 
> Reports should behave accordingly.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 4/5/26 8:23 AM, Jon Schewe via gnucash-user wrote:
> > I have Expenses:House:Rent and Expenses:House:Maintenance. I input
> > values for each into my budget. However sometimes I put
> > transactions in
> > Expenses:House or another sub-account of Expenses:House.
> > When I look at my budget report it appears that the actual values
> > reported sum up the sub-accounts, however the budget value doesn't.
> > Is
> > there an option somewhere that would allow the budget report to sum
> > up
> > the budget values of the sub-account so that the report shows how
> > the
> > rolled up expenses compare with the rolled up budget?
> 
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