New Budget Report

[Benjamin Johnsen]

Phil,

I was not aware of the report you sent out.  I agree things could get
confusing.

I was sending out an update to the report that I sent back in 2008 because I
had been getting a number of questions about.

The way my report works is it looks for accounts that have a budget value
defined and will display those accounts.
The number of columns is user defined.  In the options they can specify the
Start Date and then the number of months to show.  There are also a "Year to
Date" and "End of Year" column that can be turn on and off through options.
 Each column (Month, YTD or EOY) have a budget, actual and difference
sub-columns.  Also for each column there are rows that are defined at
Income, Expense and Total.

It sounds like our reports are very similar.  I will let the team decide how
they want to handle it.  If they only want to include one that is fine with
me.  If they want to include both and want to dictated a naming convention
that is also fine with me.

Thanks,
Ben

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>wrote:

> Ben,
>
> what is in your advanced budget report?  I ask because I distributed an
> advanced budget report via e-mail recently.  It provided 3 sets of columns:
> 1) current month, 2) YTD, 3) full year and for each set of columns,
> budget/actual/difference.  I found it to be much more useful than the
> regular budget report.  If we are going to have multiple "Advanced Budget"
> reports, life will get tricky unless we can find a way to distinguish them.
>
> Phil
> ---------
> I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for
> it.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
> *To:* gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> *Cc:* Benjamin Johnsen <ben.johnsen at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wed, January 12, 2011 2:47:17 PM
> *Subject:* Re: New Budget Report
>
> Dear Ben,
>
> thanks for the interesting update. I was trying to run your report with the
>
> most recent 2.4.0, but had to change a few lines until it was loaded
> correctly
> at start-up. The changed file is attached.
>
> However, when trying to run the report I still run into plenty of Scheme
> errors (below). Hence, the report in the current form probably cannot be
> used
> with gnucash-2.4.0. If you feel inclined to fix those bugs, I would happily
>
> include it into SVN so that it can go into the next release, but currently
> this doesn't quite work.
>
> Also, I suggest to submit your contributions as "enhancement request" in
> bugzilla http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla with the file attached,
> because
> that way, your contribution doesn't get lost just as your 2008 email to
> gnucash-devel did...
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011 schrieb Benjamin Johnsen:
> > Here is an update to the budget report that fixes some issues and adds
> some
> > new features.
> >
> > See attached file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
>