Budget question

[Daniel Trezub]

Hi, Ian.

My suggestion is: run away from GC budget feature. I've been working with GC
for some years now and didn't get to use it.

For me, the best way to make a budget is via a spredsheet, unfortunately.

Best regards,
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Daniel Trezub
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On 13 November 2010 04:30, Ian X Waddington <iwaddox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
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> For me there are two type of budget items, those that occur monthly and
> those annually, let me explain.
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> Monthly items like diesel or food would be a set amount each month and do
> not carry forward in anyway, if the budget is not spent then the
> opportunity
> is lost.  So for example, if I set a budget of £100 a month for 12 months
> but only spend £50 in month one my remaining budget at the beginning of
> month 2 would be  £1100, not £1150. The opportunity to spend the £50
> underspent in month one is lost forever.
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> On the other hand, I want to budget some items as an annual amount. This is
> because I do not actually know when I will spend the money, for example if
> I
> budget £1000 as my annual holiday budget I am unaware when I will actually
> book the holiday, so using the above example, if my budget at the start of
> month one is £1000 and I do not spend any money against annual holidays in
> month one my budget going into month two would be still £1000. The
> opportunity to spend this money remains and rolls forward throughout the
> year.
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> So to my question, can I do the above in GNUCash budgeting, my early look
> suggests not and if not is there any intent to create a more sophisticated
> budget setting and reporting tool.
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> Incidentally, the tool in MS-Money 2005 UK is useless so I do the above in
> a
> spread sheet, the formulas are quite complex but I’ve now got it just as a
> like it and can now forecast my year end position against budget with a
> frightening  degree of accuracy.
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> Sad I know
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> Ian
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