Display of liabilities not intuitive (negative amounts)
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Sylvain Francois
As a new user coming from other apps, I find the display of liabilities in Lunch Money unintuitive and inconsistent.
In many places, like the Accounts page or the Net Worth summary, positive amounts mean debts. This adds a cognitive burden on users to check the type of account and infer that it is actually a debt. However, in some places, like the tooltip of the Net Worth Chart, amounts are displayed with negative values.
I wish liabilities were consistently represented with a negative sign, and ideally, with a distinct color/style, similar to how transactions are handled.
PS: It seems like there might also be a bug with the liabilities balances. In my own data, I had a loan account (manual, not synced) with a negative value, which incorrectly increased my net worth. By going into the account details and simply re-entering the value, it went back to positive. I checked the demo data and found a similar issue: the two credit accounts have negative values, making the net worth invalid. Re-entering their balances (still with the same positive amount) fixes the issue, removing the negative sign.
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