Addendum budget equity is counted in Transfers and Totals due to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781345 Much apologies for all the noise.
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 02:34, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that equity was probably a coding error. I also > managed to find the original commit message 190665ac which confirms. I'll > try to redo, and ensure that the summary lines are as follows... I think > they should be insensitive to the sign-reversal preference. > > "2) GncBudgetView changes: > a) If an account has children but does not have a specific budget > value for a period, the sum of the children's budget values will be > displayed in gray > b) Totals column on the right provides total for a budget row (account) > c) At the bottom, totals lines with total income, total expenses, > total transfers (assets+liabilities) and grand total (income - expenses - > transfers)" > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 15:35, Phil Longstaff <phil.longst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I can't think of any reason that equity needs to be included. >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:54 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com >> > >> wrote: >> >> > Thank you Phil. Github isn't logged anywhere apart from web interface, >> > hence not the best for discussion. >> > >> > The only hiccup I really want to elucidate is whether equity being part >> of >> > Transfer line is needed at all. So please let me know whether it should >> be >> > part of the equation at all. >> > >> > My suggestions for summary lines as follows would encourage users to >> think >> > 'incoming funds --> outgoing expenses, and invest into savings and pay >> off >> > loans" >> > >> > "Inflow from Income" = normally positive >> > "Outflow to Expenses" = normally positive >> > "Outflow to Asset&Liability" = normally positive >> > "Unbudgeted balance" = aiming towards zero >> > >> > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 11:32, Phil Longstaff <phil.longst...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> I will continue this discussion here because I can no longer comment on >> >> the >> >> change on github. >> >> >> >> No, I understand you aren't trying to be difficult. >> >> >> >> I think when I made the original change, my books were set with a >> certain >> >> sign-reversal setting and I didn't test with other settings. My problem >> >> now >> >> is that I have very little time to spend to fix this. It has been a few >> >> years since I have done anything on the gnucash code base and no longer >> >> have a working development environment. >> >> >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:04 AM Christopher Lam < >> notificati...@github.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > P.S. I'm not intending to be difficult here -- the previous strategy >> had >> >> > assumed that all budget values asset/liability/income/expense/equity >> had >> >> > assumed sign-reversal=credit-balances, and was adding/subtracting >> them >> >> as >> >> > such. After bug fix, if this commit, the summary totals would have >> been >> >> > extremely broken e.g. asset=$300, liability=$1000; the transfer >> column >> >> > would have shown $1300 or $700 according to sign-reversal preference, >> >> and >> >> > the total column would be much more wild. >> >> > >> >> > — >> >> > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. >> >> > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub >> >> > < >> >> >> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/775200ef348f8579a3e0258988ae25a8026dbd6d?email_source=notifications&email_token=AE6Z25I2JTMG4J3KIZ26GT3Q3XC4FA5CNFSM4KB3HZ4KYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVVBW63LNNF2EG33NNVSW45FKMNXW23LFNZ2F62LEZYBC6A6C#commitcomment-36635586 >> >> >, >> >> > or unsubscribe >> >> > < >> >> >> https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE6Z25OEXIQVNT5ACQEDTBTQ3XC4FANCNFSM4KB3HZ4A >> >> > >> >> > . >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
