budgeting reports adjustment

[Derek Atkins]

you do realize that you can manually select which accounts are
included in existing reports by selecting them in the report
options, right?

-derek

Nicholas Potter <npotter.unm at gmail.com> writes:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> I've just started working on a report that would show expenses by
> categories, but that is adjustable so that you can eliminate common
> expenses like taxes.  If what someone is interested in is how much they
> spend on extraneous stuff, including the necessary payments doesn't
> really help much.
>
> What I'd really like is a chart that shows net disposable income (rather
> than total income, perhaps a selectable set of expense accounts that
> include taxes) by looking at disposable income and then monthly expenses
> (again, not including taxes, and perhaps not including things like
> mandatory contributions...).  Then below could be a chart of each
> monthly expense category over time.
>
> The goal here is to be able to easily see how much I'm actually taking
> in versus spending, and in what categories I'm spending so as to reduce
> spending as much as possible.
>
> Is anyone else working on something like this?  Some of the reports seem
> to be adaptable to maybe make this work.  Any thoughts about how I
> should change my idea to better fit the goal?
>
> Basically like this:
>
> Yd = Total Income - Taxes - (mandatory payments)
> Expenses = Sum( costs) - Taxes - (mandatory payments)
>
> Then chart them out.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
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