Budgeting features

[Roberto Hernandez]

Hello all,

I've recently installed GnuCash (on Windows) and started using it for
home accounting and budgeting. The accounting part is quite
impressive. However, I have some questions about how to achieve what
I'm looking for in budgeting.

My budgeting is done on a monthly basis. Some of my income / expenses
happen a couple of days before / after the calendar month. For
example, I usually get my paycheck around the 28th of each month, but
account for it in the following month's budget. The question is how to
do this in GnuCash.

One option would be to record the transaction as though it happened at
the beginning of the following month, but that would get pretty messy
for reconciling bank statements. Another option would be to have two
date columns in GnuCash: a "transaction date" and an "accounting
date", but that's not available.

My knowledge of accounting is rather basic, so there's a good chance
there's an easy solution that I'm not aware of...

TIA