Budgeting and forecasts

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:28:52AM +0100, Søren Mors wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have downloaded, installed and played a bit with gnucash. I have
> created a set of accounts, and entered some transactions for the current
> month.
> 
> I have also created a budget with most of my expected expenses for 2008.
> The reason for creating a budget was that I wanted to know, in advance,
> whether there would be enough money in my checking account each month to
> cover costs. The only budget report I have been able to find tells me
> how close to the budget my actual transactions were, month for month. Is
> there any way to get GnuCash to generate some kind of forecast?

Currently, there is no way to do this GnuCash, but it is an
oft-requested feature, so it's likely to show up evenually (maybe not
soon, though).

One work around is to export the report as html (it's a table) and
import it in to a spreadsheet program to do the sums that show the
projected balances.

-chris

> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Søren Mors
> 
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