Mystery solved. I did as you suggested and went through all of my account types and their child accounts and did have some that were not categorized properly. Voila! The budget now works.
I would like to suggest some kind of user help when issues arise. If the budget is not working, possibly an error message or a popup with helpful suggestions or a bug report popup. Back to the budget, I am looking forward to testing my budget this year and making wiser money choices and putting some money aside for special purchases. Having my money under control is such a comforting feeling. Thanks to the creators of this wonderful tool. On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:37 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't understand what you mean by "top-level account" and "one account > type". Can you give me examples? > > I don't understand much of gnucash despite reading the articles and > watching tutorials. > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:02 AM <wheelercsg-li...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Lorrie, >> >> I've seen this problem in GnuCash 2.6; I don't know whether it has >> changed in 3.x: >> >> Make sure that you have only one account of type Expense and one account >> of type Asset at the top level of your accounts. If you have more than >> one, then the budget function doesn't work as you've described. >> >> You can check this by going to the Accounts tab, right-clicking (in >> Windows, might be different on a Mac?) on each top-level account, and >> selecting "Edit Account". This will open an options window for the >> account. The account type is at the lower left. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> On 2019-01-24 1:43 a.m., gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote: >> > Message: 5 >> > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:09:49 -0800 >> > From: Lorrie Laskey<lrlas...@gmail.com> >> > To:gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > Subject: [GNC] I can't get the budget feature to work. >> > Message-ID: >> > <CA+tJatwzBZcQL8BvBXXO+66SLCD7sRZ= >> 2ksto-bklwetca7...@mail.gmail.com> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I created a 12 -period 2019 budget and entered child-level expenses and >> > income. >> > >> > The expenses have a total in the spreadsheet but are not showing up at >> the >> > bottom of the spreadsheet. Expenses still display as "0". >> > >> > What am I missing? >> >> _______________________________________________ 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.
