budgeting reports adjustment

[Nicholas Potter]

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Hey Everyone,

I've just started working on a report that would show expenses by
categories, but that is adjustable so that you can eliminate common
expenses like taxes.  If what someone is interested in is how much they
spend on extraneous stuff, including the necessary payments doesn't
really help much.

What I'd really like is a chart that shows net disposable income (rather
than total income, perhaps a selectable set of expense accounts that
include taxes) by looking at disposable income and then monthly expenses
(again, not including taxes, and perhaps not including things like
mandatory contributions...).  Then below could be a chart of each
monthly expense category over time.

The goal here is to be able to easily see how much I'm actually taking
in versus spending, and in what categories I'm spending so as to reduce
spending as much as possible.

Is anyone else working on something like this?  Some of the reports seem
to be adaptable to maybe make this work.  Any thoughts about how I
should change my idea to better fit the goal?

Basically like this:

Yd = Total Income - Taxes - (mandatory payments)
Expenses = Sum( costs) - Taxes - (mandatory payments)

Then chart them out.

Thanks

Nick

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Nicholas Potter <npotter at unm.edu>
Research Scientist
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
University of New Mexico
505.277.7067

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