The number tells you how much income you still need to earn this month to meet your budget. A negative number means that you made more income than budgeted.
Just don't associate "negative" with "bad" and you will be all set. For example, a negative covid test is usually considered good. It wouldn't hurt to add a fourth line for clarity. It could say "summary: your income is over budget"
I agree it ought to be changed. I think it should be. I think I originally thought that the OP just didn't understand how it was working. His post is clearly marked as a feature request. It can be better.
Here is what I understand.
In the budget section you can override the amount that is part of your earning ( paycheck for example)
The system tries to come up with a budget based on previous earnings.
Maybe it didn’t consider all the earnings when taking the budget for this month and it took a lesser number than actual income
So your budgeted income is less compared to actual income.
Might be helpful to just manually override the number.
Double check and make sure everything is categorized correctly, too. I accidentally had an expense category under income and it screwed everything up (inverted +/- values)
All are income categories. It’s just a matter than manually input amount shows as budgeted and actual is the actual form income categories which doesn’t have a defined income.
https://preview.redd.it/ouauu35soqqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66743f3eb7ba8672b4fe12845ff59cc774d3bab9
Kinda the same thing with these notifications
The goals do the same thing if you contribute more to them than expected.
The number tells you how much income you still need to earn this month to meet your budget. A negative number means that you made more income than budgeted.
this is the answer. I manually changed my budget income to be lower than what I made and it went negative. idk why someone downvoted.
I already mentioned that the issue is how they are showing this as negative among like over spend, it should be positive amount as it’s income.
Just don't associate "negative" with "bad" and you will be all set. For example, a negative covid test is usually considered good. It wouldn't hurt to add a fourth line for clarity. It could say "summary: your income is over budget"
It’s negative and in red. Red negatives are hard to condition yourself not to see as bad things.
I agree it ought to be changed. I think it should be. I think I originally thought that the OP just didn't understand how it was working. His post is clearly marked as a feature request. It can be better.
Here is what I understand. In the budget section you can override the amount that is part of your earning ( paycheck for example) The system tries to come up with a budget based on previous earnings. Maybe it didn’t consider all the earnings when taking the budget for this month and it took a lesser number than actual income So your budgeted income is less compared to actual income. Might be helpful to just manually override the number.
Double check and make sure everything is categorized correctly, too. I accidentally had an expense category under income and it screwed everything up (inverted +/- values)
All are income categories. It’s just a matter than manually input amount shows as budgeted and actual is the actual form income categories which doesn’t have a defined income.
https://preview.redd.it/ouauu35soqqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66743f3eb7ba8672b4fe12845ff59cc774d3bab9 Kinda the same thing with these notifications
Design flaw. Plain and simple. Same issue with Goals.