I was sure someone else would say this. My credit card balance is positive, not negative - as I add charges, the positive total goes up... as I make payments, the total goes down. I'm guessing that all of your charges are reversed.
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 2:46 PM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > 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. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
