budget

[Dennis Powless]

I set up and 'programmed' a spreadsheet in LibreOffice.  One sheet has
discretionary spending with cells for amounts for that time period.  I used
the transaction report and limited it to the bank accounts used, certain
expense accounts and some transfers to fit my needs.  I then ran these and
just used the values, which were totals, ie fuel or groceries in the cells
in the spreadsheet.  It might take a bit of fiddling to get the reports
correct, with the right data etc...

I suppose if you had the time you could export to a csv file and code the
export to go to specific cells in the spreadsheet that might be a way to do
it.  Or, import the csv file (or whatever is available to export) to the
spreadsheet to specific cells would work too.   In theory, would work I
don't know the language used.  I can do MS Access to MS Excel, wonder if it
would be similar.

Dennis

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Gour <gour at atmarama.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:21:53 -0400
> Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I figured it out, I just added the carryover to the actual
> > expenses from the previous month net.  I find the budget feature
> > difficult to use in gnucash, so made my own is LibreOffice.  I use
> > the reports in gnucash quite a bit to get data for the budget, only a
> > few data points each pay period, but works great.  I guess in a sense
> > sorta a 'envelope budget' but not fully like he intended.  However,
> > it is a zero sum budget and very easy 'in theory' to do with the help
> > of gnucash, if one can limit your spending :)
>
> If you can share more how do you combine Gnucash's data with
> LibreOffice to have bette budget feature I'd certainly like to hear
> considering I want to stay with Gnucash and not having required Guile
> skills to do more?
>
> Let me also add that here (in Croatia) we have a real need to do proper
> budgeting. :-)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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