Not calculating opening balance with Equity for budget.

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Not calculating opening balance with Equity for budget.

Opened this issue 4 years ago · 6 comments

I was expecting "Funds for month" to equal Assets-(Budgeted+Liabilities) but it seems to only check cash flow from income.
In the below example, I was expecting "Funds for month" to be 1000.00(Checking)+500.00(Saving)-250.00(Credit Card)+50.00(Income)+25.00(Transfer from non-budget asset) = 1325.00

Instead it only shows 50(Income), it shows 1250.00 in a "Equity:Opening-Balances" envelope, and I have no idea where the 25(Transfer from non-budget asset) went.

example.beancount.txt

Answer 1 · 2021-03-05T19:08:32.000Z

I am working on adding tests, I will look into this further soon

Answer 2 · 2021-03-05T19:56:37.000Z

since the Asset:Checking and Assets:Gold are budget accounts, the transaction is considered an internal transfer. Therefore would not effect the bucket totals. If you remove Assets:Gold from the budget accounts, it should show up

Answer 3 · 2021-03-05T20:23:38.000Z

Ah I thought I had removed gold from the budget accounts good catch

Answer 4 · 2021-03-05T22:02:17.000Z

really want to make this useful, let me know of any improvements you think of or pain points in using it. I am planning on adding more documentation and tests to help users set in up and understand what it is doing

Answer 5 · 2021-03-06T15:24:10.000Z

Im not sure why this was closed? The Assets:Gold part was a mistake in the test file, but there is still 1275.00 USD in that example that isn't in the available funds.

I was expecting it to look more like this, not sure why I need the "2021-01-02 custom "envelope" "allocate" "Equity:Opening-Balances" -1275.00" line in order to budget all the assets in the budget accounts.
example.beancount.txt

Answer 6 · 2021-03-06T17:11:44.000Z

sorry from the previous comment, I thought the issue was resolved