Budget Editor Entry

[Wm]

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:50:41 
<CAB5KxtXrxbLq46=vOMZ9H2PmD=2J40UVF5NpAGiV3k4TXO7q7Q at mail.gmail.com> 
Russell Mercer <rmercer206 at gmail.com>

>It seems odd to me that the programmed behavior of the budget
>editor is contradicted by different Budget reports, which also contradict
>each other in their behavior.
>
>If anyone has any insight into this, I would really appreciate it.

No-one bought gnc for the budgeting.

>  I saw
>an email from a couple years back questioning why someone would use the
>budget functionality for monthly recurring costs, and I hope I don't get a
>similar response this time.

hmmn, why not, if you know what future costs are going to be they 
needn't be budgeted for, you just put them in a future cash flow, gnc is 
very good at the latter.

>  Budgeting is an integral part of financial
>management, and it really should work.  I am trying to use it because it
>makes more sense and should theoretically take less time to do a budget in
>Gnucash, than to export all the values to Excel for each category and time
>period, and get it to work there.

Well, in that case you might need to rethink.  Budgeting is *not* 
central to gnc.  If you're a refugee from budget orientated software 
then you need to accept that you were doing it wrong before.  Welcome to 
the world of accounting rather than budgeting.

>Again, any assistance would be appreciated.

http://blog.dnpavlov.com/2014/03/gnucash-budget-report-enhancement.html

is better than standard but involves you doing something and 
understanding more.

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Wm...