customizing budget reports?

[guy leavitt]

Thanks again for the quick responses and suggestions.  The open source
community continues to amaze me!  Just for the sake of reference, I've filed
an enhancement request at bugzilla.gnome.org (# 347274).  cheers,

-guy


On 7/11/06, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:00:57PM -0500, guy leavitt wrote:
> > On 7/11/06, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:24:19PM -0500, guy leavitt wrote:
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >> And apologies in advance for my newbie question.  Have looked through
> > >the
> > >> documentation and mailing list archives, but didn't see (missed?) the
> > >answer
> > >> I'm looking for.  Basically, I would like to view the running balance
> > >> between the budgeted amounts and the actual amounts in the budget
> > >report.
> > >
> > >The running balance of the accounts?  That would require programmatic
> > >changes to the report.  However, if theses are income or expense
> > >accounts, then you can achieve a similar effect by starting the first
> > >budget period at a time when the accounts are zeroed out, like at the
> > >beginning of the year.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the speedy and informative reply.  I'm not sure I quite
> > understood you and I'm still learning gnucash, so...to clarify... the
> > accounts in question are income accounts, but they were imported from
> > elsewhere and they have totals that won't zero out any time soon (it's a
> > long term budget).  What I need to track is not only the balances of
> these
> > accounts, but also the cumulative difference, month-by-month, betweeen
> their
> > total budgeted amounts and their total actual amounts.  From what you
> said,
> > it sounds like gnucash isn't set up to report that, no?  I'll file the
> > request you mention if not.  Thanks again for the reply!
>
> Oh, ok.  That's what I initially thought you meant, but I convinced
> myself you meant something simpler.  No, the report doesn't keep track
> of the difference between actual and budget, but I can see how that
> would be useful.
>
> As a short-term work-around, you might export the report as html, and
> import it into a spreadsheet program.
>
> Anyway, ignore what I said about income accounts.  It doesn't make any
> sense to me now.
>
> -chris
>
>