budgeting?

[Josh Sled]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:11, James Richardson wrote:

> I have been trying to move from quicken to gnucash. The only thing i
> find lacking is no support for budgeting, or at least none I can find. A
> google search turned a few ideas from a few years ago, but AFAIK they
> have not been implemented.

That's correct, they have not.

> My question is, is budgeting supported in gnucash? I would like to set
> up bugdets on accounts and track budget amount vs actual amount....

No, it's not supported via application support for the tracking or
projection aspects.

One can create sub-accounts for "fund pools" which roughly match
expected expense categories.

Between this and income + expense scheduled transactions setup to be
created N days-in-advance, a rough forward-looking projection can be
determined.

...jsled

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