Repeated budget values

[Joshua Christopher]

Peter and all,

I read something since my last email that the devs were thinking about
making the scheduled transactions and budgets work together better
(but I think that was back from 2006).

The current budgeting system works almost as I want it to (my needs
aren't complex enough yet to require budgeting in scheduled
transactions), it is just inconvenient to type in the same budget
values at the beginning of every single month and so I would like to
copy-paste the budget values from last month to this month (at worst,
or have GnuCash automatically use it again at best).

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM, prl <prl at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I have wondered about this, too. I looked at trying to do a budget for
> family income/expenses in GnuCash, nad I was surprised and disappointed when
> I couldn't find a way to automatically include scheduled expenses
> (especially ones set up as fixed amounts).
>
> I also found the Budget layout cumbersome.
>
> I ended up using a simple spreadsheet to do the job for our main transaction
> account, and I do the estimate/refinement process that Joushua wants for
> variable bills in the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has simple
> date/reason/income/expense/balance columns, a sheet per month, with a
> carried forward and an actual for the beginning of each month. When I get my
> account statement, I switch the base value for the month's budget from the
> carried forward entry to the actual entry. This still doesn't fill scheduled
> payments automatically, though, but I find the per-transaction view easier
> to use than the Budget sheet's per-period/per account view.
>
> Joshua, I can email you a copy of the spreadsheet if you like (with my
> personal information removed, of course).
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 3/01/12 9:34, Joshua Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I was wondering if I could get some clarification on this thread:
>> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Entering-Budget-Values-td2538253.html
>>
>> How can scheduled transactions be included in your budgeted amount? It
>> seems that scheduled transactions can only be used to automatically
>> add to your ledger (or with some feedback, like in variable expenses
>> such as water bills). I like the default budgeting I would just like
>> to have a set amount per category every single month until I decide to
>> adjust that amount and it is a hassle having to enter it manually
>> every month.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Joshua
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