Help with check register template

Question

I am using the check register template to track my business income and expenses.  I edited the catagories sucessfully, added some sucessfully. My issue is that I added a Income category and it is totallng correctly. What I am trying to do in the total cell is subtract the total Expenses from the Income total. When I input the Total Income minus one of the expenses it adds it instead of subtracting it. I am trying to create a profit and loss cell. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

I don't see why you'd need a new formula for each entry if your expenses are negative and your income is positive.  But if your two-table solution works, stick with it.
In the spreadsheet I created, all numbers (expense and income) are positive.  The sheet totals all figures by categories.  Then all expense categories are subtracted from all income categories for profit/loss.  That's a bit different from Number's template approach.
I'm reluctant to slide the speadsheet publicly.  I did charge for it and it seems kind of unfair to him to now roll it out to free to the world.  Besides, it's more of an accounting ledger .... there's no running balance as there would be for, say, a checkbook.  The basic premise is, though, to create an intro sheet listing all income categories and all expense categories.  Then make a sheet like a general ledger listing date, item, category (pulled dynamicly from the first sheet), and amount.  Then a final sheet showing totals of each category for each month, in groups of 3 for quarters, and a final year-long summary.
There are several threads here on how to create a dynamic list.  (That means that the items on the list, instead of being set at creation with the Inspector, are created and changed from elsewhere in your document; you change that list and all your lists are automatically changed as well.)  Search on "dynamic lists" here and you should find them without any problem.
Have fun and good luck (both with Numbers and your business).
Vince