A crucial GNUCash feature that is missing, but easy to implement for budgets

[Steven Miller]

All,

I started using GnuCash recently and I love it!  I got a handful of my friends hooked on it also.  Despite all the features and good things about it, there is one super simple feature missing that I have to have to make it effective for me.

 The feature I need is on the budget report.  I really need to be able to see the month totals for the difference/variance (actual - budget) columns for each month.  I realize this feature is available for the end of year/budget period, but it would be much more useful to have a checkbox in the options that allows you to also see the totals for each month rolled up in this view.
The feature seems like for someone that understood the code it would essentially take only a couple of hours to implement (honestly, I think somebody could just take a sum of the difference column, actual - budgeted, and have this displayed at the bottom of each month, and thus keep a running total of where you were at.  I was using excel sheets before and I was able to do this with sum formulas and adding and subtracting math :).

It is difficult to do budgeting unless you can accurately track where you are currently at.  I know I could hack it and beat around the issue by having my budget only display a single month, but this becomes really cumbersome when needing to also see the entire period.

I really don't want to have to back to using excel sheets as GnuCash beats Excel in almost every area, but I do need this basic utility to effectively budget.  Is there anyone that is willing to put this feature in or that can tell me how to do it so that I can possibly put it in?

Thanks,
Steven