[GNC-dev] Budget accumulate amounts

[Christopher Lam]

I've renamed to 'Use accumulated amounts' in maint.
A stretch of beta testing for this prior to release of 3.7 would be good.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:14, David T. via gnucash-devel <
gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> "Show Accumulated Amounts"
> would be my preference.
> David
>
>
>   On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 9:09, Adrien Monteleone<
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:   How about: ‘report amounts as
> YTD’
>
> If ‘Year’ isn’t necessarily a consistent concept, then something like you
> suggested, ‘report/use accumulated amounts’ would work.
>
> I can play with it soon. (as well as test the First Day of Week fix) Now I
> guess I just need to set up a build workflow for Mac. (I’ve built on Ubuntu
> several times, but never tried on Mac yet)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Aug 20, 2019 w34d232, at 9:46 PM, Christopher Lam <
> christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > The current maint for upcoming 3.7 includes an upgrade to the basic
> budget
> > report; it incorporates calculations to accumulate budgeted and actual
> > amounts from the beginning of the budget period. The aim is to
> incorporate
> > Phil Longstaff's budget-ytd strategy into the main budget report. I have
> > labelled the option "General"/"Use envelope budgeting".
> >
> > I am fairly certain that my calculations are correct but would like some
> > confirmation. Moreover I am not happy with the option name. What should
> it
> > be?
> > e.g. "Accumulate amounts across periods", "Use accumulated amounts".
> >
> > Suggestions welcome!
>
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