Also worth mentioning that the budget planning screen is a little wonky in v3.8 and it'd be better to use v3.7 or v3.9 when it comes out.
See https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797551. Thanks, Greg On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:25 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Note, for the curious, I’m aware there is a more direct and technically > correct answer explaining the issue with negative signs, but it involves > going over the Accounting Equation and how that is implemented using > computers, which was not offered by explicit request. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Feb 18, 2020 w8d49, at 1:19 PM, Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > Welcome to GnuCash! > > > > Yes, the Budget module is old and not always intuitive in how it works. > > > > For starters, what version of GnuCash are you using and on what > operating system? (v3.8 is the newest) > > > > Older versions had some issues respecting your global preference for > ‘reverse balanced accounts’. V3.8 should honor this appropriately. > > > > How you have this set will depend on how you enter figures in the budget > module. > > > > Based on the results you provided it looks like you have the preference > set to ‘Credit Accounts’, so most *all* of your accounts will normally show > a positive balance. > > > > Therefore, change your budget entries from negative to positive for all > accounts. Then you should see the differences work out properly. > > > > When budgeting, don’t think of your credits and debits, just think of > the absolute (positive) value of the money moving around from income to > expenses, assets, and liabilities. There may be times where you would need > to enter negative budget value, but that would be very rare. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > >> On Feb 18, 2020 w8d49, at 8:01 AM, Long <phamhoanglon...@outlook.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Thank you for take your time to read this post and Help me. > >> I'm newbie and not a accounting, and i want to budgeting my income, > saving > >> account, expenses, liability and more, but GnuCash Budget make me hard > to > >> understand what going on ! > >> > >> For example : > >> *Example 1 :* > >> Income / Revenue : i assume i will have about 100$ for next month, so i > >> budgeting it, and what value should i enter ? 100 or -100 ? > >> Liability (Credit Card): i assume i will make a payment about 100$ a > month, > >> so i need enter to budget 100 or -100 ? > >> Saving account : i want to save some money for my birthday party, and > it's > >> take 100$ a month, so enter to Assets-saving 100 or -100 ? > >> Expense : i want to spend about 100$ a month to buy foods, so what value > >> should i enter ? 100 or -100 ? > >> *Example 2 :* > >> i assume that i want to reduced the balance of liability and income > (because > >> both of them are credit to increase), so i budgeting -100 (mean i want > to > >> debit - payment )a month for both. And look ! Booom ...... > >> > >> for Liability : > >> Budget : *-100* > >> Actual : 100 > >> Diff : *-200* > >> for Income : > >> Budget : *-100* > >> Actual : 100 > >> Diff : *200* > >> > >> GnuCash Budget make me very confused, so please help me, or guide me > (with > >> non-accounting explain). Thank you > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.