What version of Gnucash are you using and what platform is it running on. When you look at an individual charge transaction, the balance after the transaction should be larger than the balance before the transaction with the reverse for a payment. Whether that balance is shown as a negative or positive number will depnd on the Reverse Balance Accounts setting in Edit->Preferenes on the Account tab.
Changing the preference to have Reverse Balance Accounts-None checked should result in the balance being shown as negative value, which increases in the negative direction when a charge is added (where the sum of the charges is greater than the sum of the payments to the account) and should become less negative when a payment is recorded I.e. for a liability account the normal balance is negative with this preference selection. With the Reverse Balance Accounts preference Credit Accounts checked (which is the default setting), the balance value will be positive (when the value of all charges to the account is larger than the value of all payments) and a charge to the account should increase this positive value and a payment should decrease the value. One other comment is if you change the preference settings you may have to force the register to be redrawn with the new settings. A simple way to do this is to change to another register and change back. The redraw seems to be done automatically for the change of the above settings, but not if you change the preference for formal accounting labels. David Cousens If this is not the behavior you are observing David Cousens If this is not the case, what version of GnuCash are you using and on what platform ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.