Are you sure you have all your CC Charges entered correctly? It sounds like something is being entered backwards.
-derek On Sat, March 4, 2023 2:28 pm, Custom Shots wrote: > That's exactly what I'm saying. I owe $500. That's a negative balance in > my credit card account, showing in red with a minus sign. I enter a > payment > of $200 and the negative balance increases to -$700. The negative balance > should decrease to -$300. Yet the other half of the transaction correctly > withdraws $200 from cash. > I did play with the settings when I decided I liked seeing what I owed as > red negative numbers. > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 11:54 AM Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> On 2023-03-04 10:26, Custom Shots wrote: >> > I just noticed this. Something has changed. I keep 30 day backups and >> this >> > has been going on in all my backups. When I add a payment transaction >> to >> my >> > credit card account the negative balance increases instead of >> decreasing. >> > Any clues to what is happening? I am using GnuCash Version: 4.8 Build >> ID: >> > 4.8a+(2021-09-28) on Ubuntu 2022.04.2. The second half of the double >> entry >> > transaction, the withdrawal from my checking account, works correctly. >> >> Presumably by "correctly" you mean that the positive balance of the cash >> or checking account goes down? If so, I agree with you that it's >> correct: a credit to an asset account reduces the balance of that >> account. (Paying someone is a credit to cash, and getting money from >> someone is a debit to cash.) >> >> You might take a look in Edit » Preferences » Accounts, under "Reverse >> Balanced Accounts". I can't remember the details from when I set up my >> data file a few years ago, but I do remember that on experimenting with >> those settings the only one that _didn't_ give nonsensical results was >> "Credit accounts". (I mean nonsensical to me; I'm sure the developers >> must have had some good reason for those other settings.) >> >> Are you saying something like: the balance on your Visa account was >> minus $200, and you paid $65, and now the balance is minus $265 instead >> of the expected minus $135? That would be wrong under any circumstances, >> as far as I can understand. Or did you mean it literally that the >> account balance "increases", since minus $135 is greater than minus >> $200? If that's what you meant, then everything is correct except that >> the credit-card account is showing a minus sign in front of correct >> balances, and for that I'd definitely have a look at "Reverse Balanced >> Accounts". >> >> Stan Brown >> Tehachapi, CA, USA >> https://BrownMath.com >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> 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 > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
