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

Leo Bolta lbolta at rogers.com
Sat Jan 14 21:27:40 EST 2017


Wow!, I'm a new user and was thinking of a similar proposal.  How great a
tool it would be to be able to generate monthly variance reports of budged
vs. actual; particularly for income and expense accounts and their
respective placeholder totals.  If the report could also generate actual vs.
budged running total columns as the year progressed, it could 'smooth-away'
any premature anxieties that single month to month swings might yield.
    

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From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+lbolta=rogers.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
Steven Miller
Sent: January-14-17 7:27 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: A crucial GNUCash feature that is missing, but easy to implement
for budgets

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
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