Budgeting?

[The Doctor What]

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I have searched through the mail archives, and there isn't much in
the way of discussion about budgeting with GnuCash.

The "project goal" page says stuff about supplying budgeting
software for common users, but I don't actually see it in GnuCash
yet.

Don't get me wrong, I love doing my money tracking in GnuCash.  I am
comfortable with double entry for most of my uses (though loans
confuse me, so I'm probably doing them wrong).

Anyway, I have a monthly budget.  But I don't want to just follow
the Budget (the road map, if you will) and not look at GnuCash (the
road).  I don't want to overspend on anything, or anything like
that.

I tried playing with the reports, to get a breakdown of how much I
spend/spent in a month, but the closest I could get is the
Transaction report, set for one month.  But it's a pain, because you
have to select *every* account you want, because it doesn't do
sub-accounts by default.

BTW: I really think that on the reports, that you should be have two
nodes for each account that has a sub-account.  One for the account
and another for all the sub-accounts.  Because it's a pain
otherwise.

Anyway, if anyone has a FAQ or something on this, I'd love to read
it.  I just want to not have to manually enter junk into Gnumeric or
work stuff out on paper.

Ciao!

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