Incorrect account forcasting

[Susan Penter]

Binary package hint: kmymoney2

On the home page the account forcast is shown for the next 30, 60 & 90 days. One of my accounts is a credit card account for which I have set up a payment schedule to make re-payments. Each time the balance is showing as increasing by the payment amount. As this is a credit card and I am making re-payments the amount should be shown as getting smaller not larger. It is working as if there was a positive balance rather than a negative one.

How do I make it understand that it is such, it is showing under the liability column so it does understand that this is money owing.

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

Which version of KMyMoney are you using? Where did you install it from?

Are you sure your credit card and the payment schedule is setup correctly? It should show a positive balance in the accounts view, and a negative balance in the home view.

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

I am the maintainer of the forecast module in KMyMoney.

[Susan Penter (susan-penter)]

Hello Hei,
I am using version 0.9.2 installed via the Ubuntu Synaptic Package manager.
When I set it up I followed the instructions to set up a new account. In the
account window the opening balance is showing in the payment instead of
charge window with the balance column having brackets around the figure. I
tried putting a - in front of the figure to see if this would change this
but it was ignored.

On the home screen the account is showing on the Liabilities side but with a
positive balance.

Cheers
Susan

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Hei Ku <email address hidden> wrote:

> Which version of KMyMoney are you using? Where did you install it from?
>
> Are you sure your credit card and the payment schedule is setup
> correctly? It should show a positive balance in the accounts view, and a
> negative balance in the home view.
>
> --
> Incorrect account forcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375180
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “kmymoney2” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kmymoney2
>
> On the home page the account forcast is shown for the next 30, 60 & 90
> days. One of my accounts is a credit card account for which I have set up a
> payment schedule to make re-payments. Each time the balance is showing as
> increasing by the payment amount. As this is a credit card and I am making
> re-payments the amount should be shown as getting smaller not larger. It is
> working as if there was a positive balance rather than a negative one.
>
> How do I make it understand that it is such, it is showing under the
> liability column so it does understand that this is money owing.
>

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

When you set up a credit card account, entering a positive opening balance means you owe that much money. A negative balance in that case would mean the credit card owes you.

You can go to the ledger, select the opening balance transaction and change it from payment to charge. That should fix the credit card balance. Then you should modify the payment schedule accordingly.

[Susan Penter (susan-penter)]

Hi,
I have set it up as a positive amount, I only tried the negative amount when
the positive didn't work but it wouldn't accept a negative amount it ignored
the - sign and put a positive amount in it's place.

So unfortunately it still isn't sorted.

Cheers
Susan

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Hei Ku <email address hidden> wrote:

> When you set up a credit card account, entering a positive opening
> balance means you owe that much money. A negative balance in that case
> would mean the credit card owes you.
>
> You can go to the ledger, select the opening balance transaction and
> change it from payment to charge. That should fix the credit card
> balance. Then you should modify the payment schedule accordingly.
>
> --
> Incorrect account forcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375180
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “kmymoney2” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kmymoney2
>
> On the home page the account forcast is shown for the next 30, 60 & 90
> days. One of my accounts is a credit card account for which I have set up a
> payment schedule to make re-payments. Each time the balance is showing as
> increasing by the payment amount. As this is a credit card and I am making
> re-payments the amount should be shown as getting smaller not larger. It is
> working as if there was a positive balance rather than a negative one.
>
> How do I make it understand that it is such, it is showing under the
> liability column so it does understand that this is money owing.
>

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

Could you please save your file as an anonymous file and attach it here? I will take a look at it and that will allow me to sort this out. Thanks!

[Susan Penter (susan-penter)]

I'm not sure how to save it as anonymous as such so I am sending you the
file as it is saved I hope this is all you need.

Cheers
Susan

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Hei Ku <email address hidden> wrote:

> Could you please save your file as an anonymous file and attach it here?
> I will take a look at it and that will allow me to sort this out.
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Incorrect account forcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375180
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “kmymoney2” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kmymoney2
>
> On the home page the account forcast is shown for the next 30, 60 & 90
> days. One of my accounts is a credit card account for which I have set up a
> payment schedule to make re-payments. Each time the balance is showing as
> increasing by the payment amount. As this is a credit card and I am making
> re-payments the amount should be shown as getting smaller not larger. It is
> working as if there was a positive balance rather than a negative one.
>
> How do I make it understand that it is such, it is showing under the
> liability column so it does understand that this is money owing.
>

[Hei Ku (asoliverez)]

After checking a file sent by the user, it was determined that the problem lied in the opening balance. Correcting the opening balance fixed the issue.