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.