Customizing Budget Periods

[Edward Doolittle]

I know this is suboptimal, but can you create a set of twelve one-month
budgets? And a one year budget? With those 13 budgets you should be able to
calculate variances for any month, and for the whole year (ignoring the
months within the year-long budget).

There has been talk for additional calendar support, but it's going to be
quite complicated in general so I wouldn't hold my breath. You might look
for it in the 2.8 series, though someone more knowledgeable will likely
correct me.

On 2 March 2017 at 05:54, Phillip Davis <phil.davis at inf.org> wrote:

> I am helping some organizations in Nepal start using GnuCash. Nepal has a
> different calendar and Nepali months start around the middle of the
> Gregorian calendar month. Thankfully there are 12 months, the same as the
> Gregorian calendar. We are going to have to use Gregorian dates, because
> (unless someone points me to a whole calendar package for GnuCash!) there
> is not going to be anything that knows about the Nepali year and number of
> days in each month...
>
> Typically the financial year starts around 2016-07-15 to 2017-07-14. But
> the number of days in each Nepali month is different to the Gregorian
> months. So each Nepali month might start on 07-15 then 08-16 09-17 10-15
> 11-14 ... - the exact start day of the Nepali month in the Gregorian
> calendar month varies by a couple of days.
>
> All I can do so far is specify the start of the budget, e.g. 2016-07-15,
> and GnuCash assumes each subsequent period starts on the 15th of each
> month. I would like to specify the actual start date of each budget period.
>
> Is that possible anywhere?
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil Davis
>
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