in my budget why is it adding my income and expenses instead of subtracting them (Q Mac)

Drhode3921

this is at the very top of the yearly budget page where it says under each month
INCOME
EXPENSE
DIFFERENCE
the difference is the income and expense added together WHY???

John_in_NC

Hi, again, Drhode3921:

Your Expense values should be showing as positive amounts, and I suspect that is where the problem lies. I would go into your budget, and click on Edit Budget at the top:



Then, make sure your expense category goals are set up with Positive values:



Having negative amounts there (unless you were expecting some unusual credit to an expense account that month) will adversely affect your budget. I would start there.

John_in_NC

It shouldn't. 

One question: are your expense budget categories goals using negative amounts? (They should be positive, but I have seen use cases when they get pre-populated as negative amounts for the goals.)

If so, those negative amounts end up adding to the Income amount. (Negative less a negative. . . and it gets added to Income.)

Let me know if you are seeing this.

Drhode3921

Thanks so much for answering so quickly
The columns of income are positive and the expensive is in a negative, just can't figure out how they can add those two, MAKES NO SENSE

John_in_NC

Hi, again, Drhode3921:

Your Expense values should be showing as positive amounts, and I suspect that is where the problem lies. I would go into your budget, and click on Edit Budget at the top:



Then, make sure your expense category goals are set up with Positive values:



Having negative amounts there (unless you were expecting some unusual credit to an expense account that month) will adversely affect your budget. I would start there.

Drhode3921

TY IT WORKED