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

[Adrien Monteleone]

Are you asking for just the variance for that month, or a separate year-to-date variance column?

From what I see, the individual monthly variances are already there. And yes, a YTD variance would be VERY helpful.


> On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:27 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> From: Steven Miller <Smille89_K at hotmail.com <mailto:Smille89_K at hotmail.com>>
> Subject: A crucial GNUCash feature that is missing, but easy to implement for budgets
> Date: January 14, 2017 at 6:27:17 PM CST
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
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> 
> All,
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> 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.
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> 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 :).
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
> Steven