I believe I found the answer to this. The Budget report (and the Transaction Report) are showing the "expected" values for changes to liability account balances - how much debt I actually paid off this month.
The Net Worth Report (and Liabilities Over Time Report) also show "arguably correct" values for changes to liability account balances - How much debt I added this month; ignoring any payments I made on the first day of the month. The discrepancy arises when transactions occur on the reporting boundary days. For instance, If I apply a $2,000 payment to a credit card on the first of the month, and then spend $500 on that card throughout the month, the Budget Report (and the Transaction Report) will show that a decrease of that credit card account by $2,000; however, the Net Worth (and Liabilities Over Time) report will show a Liability increase of $500. It would seem that the Time-series reports use the balance of the accounts at the "end of the day" for the reporting period boundaries(i.e. including transactions from the beginning boundary day); whereas the transaction-tracking reports use actual ingress and egress values from transactions against the account during the reporting periods. Is there a way to adjust the behavior of Time-Series reports so that they choose the balance from before the first transaction of the reporting period (and after the last transaction of the end of the reporting period)? On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 8:47 PM Charles Crossan <crossan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I've been using GNUCash (gratefully, and happily) for 10 years, and this > is my first time reaching out to the mailing list. > > I recently noticed that the "Budget Report" for the current period shows a > different "Act" value for "changes in Liabilities" than the > manually-calculated liability delta from the "Net Worth Report" or the > "Liability report" (using the same set of accounts) for the same one-month > period. > > For instance, budget report "act" says "Liabilities Decreased by $1500", > but the liabilities report says " Liabilities increased by $3500" > > I feel like my comprehension of accounting is betraying me. How is this > possible? Has anyone else seen something like this before? > > -- > Thanks, > > > Charles Crossan > @crossan007 <https://twitter.com/crossan007> > 215-804-9851 > https://www.ccrossan.com > > -- Thanks, Charles Crossan @crossan007 <https://twitter.com/crossan007> 215-804-9851 https://www.ccrossan.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 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.
