customizing budget reports?

[guy leavitt]

On 7/11/06, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:24:19PM -0500, guy leavitt wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > And apologies in advance for my newbie question.  Have looked through
> the
> > documentation and mailing list archives, but didn't see (missed?) the
> answer
> > I'm looking for.  Basically, I would like to view the running balance
> > between the budgeted amounts and the actual amounts in the budget
> report.
>
> The running balance of the accounts?  That would require programmatic
> changes to the report.  However, if theses are income or expense
> accounts, then you can achieve a similar effect by starting the first
> budget period at a time when the accounts are zeroed out, like at the
> beginning of the year.


Thanks for the speedy and informative reply.  I'm not sure I quite
understood you and I'm still learning gnucash, so...to clarify... the
accounts in question are income accounts, but they were imported from
elsewhere and they have totals that won't zero out any time soon (it's a
long term budget).  What I need to track is not only the balances of these
accounts, but also the cumulative difference, month-by-month, betweeen their
total budgeted amounts and their total actual amounts.  From what you said,
it sounds like gnucash isn't set up to report that, no?  I'll file the
request you mention if not.  Thanks again for the reply!

-guy

For asset or liability accounts, you'd have to get that info from
> another report.  Feel free to file a Request For Enhancement at
> bugzilla.gnome.org.
>
> -chris
>
> > (Instead, I'm only seeing the budgeted and actual amounts themselves for
> the
> > periods budgeted.)  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Guy
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