True. However, the problem is that the budget report shows a payment to a liability as negative. So, unless the budget amount is also negative, the "diff" column is incorrect.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:12 PM Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > Negative from the perspective of the source account, not from the > perspective of the liability. The same is true of expenses. > > In the budget module, your amounts should all be positive for > savings(assets), income, expenses and payments on liabilities. > > 1. Budget your income > 2. Budget the following based on priorities > a. Expenses > b. Liability Payments > c. Savings (or other asset acquisitions) > 3. Enter every number as positive > > Observe that the total remaining to be budgeted increases when you budget > positive income. > Observe that the total remaining to be budgeted decreases when you budget > positive anything else. > > I just tested this on 3.9 and it works as expected. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Mar 31, 2020 w14d91, at 8:45 PM, Long <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Jim, > > > > When you made a payment to liability, the amount are negative. > > > > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
