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

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I would agree with this, wholeheartedly.  We are putting together a proposal for a grant which will require plan v. actual reports on a regular basis.  

Walt

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 9:39 PM, Steven Miller <Smille89_K at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yep, exactly what I was thinking...  I was hoping there was a developer that could either quickly put it in or could show me how to put it in, but I believe in the time it would take them to show me, they would already have it implemented.  I have several other friends that love the software who would really like this feature also.
> 
> 
> -Steven
> 
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> From: Leo Bolta <lbolta at rogers.com <mailto:lbolta at rogers.com>>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 8:27 PM
> To: 'Steven Miller'
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: RE: A crucial GNUCash feature that is missing, but easy to implement for budgets
> 
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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