[GNC] Copy a month's budget

[Patrick]

Ok, thanks. Yes, I'd always appreciated that about top-posting - not having
to scroll to the bottom. I'd just recalled in the past having used mailing
lists that didn't allow it.

Thanks,
Patrick

>Personal preference.
>
>For example, depending on the nature of the conversation, (like for
multiple points/questions to discuss) I’ll use in-line, but I usually use
top posting, as in this case.
>
>While I see it occasionally, bottom-posting is the least used in these
parts as it means you have to scroll to read the reply.
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>> On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Patrick <plafratt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Andre,
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. This definitely gives me some possible
alternatives
>> to consider.
>>
>> I am not able to find a page that gives the etiquette rules for this
>> mailing list. Is top-posting preferred on this list? I noticed that some
>> people do and some don't.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 AM Andre Powell <apowell656 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick,
>>> The method that I use for budgeting is well "old-fashioned". My salary
is
>>> paid every fifteen days and my wife once a month, hence the two-week
setup,
>>> and the quarterly view because in my prior career we managed our P&Ls
>>> monthly but with quarterly plans so mentally I am kind of used to that
way
>>> of thinking (or maybe I don't  want to scroll so much).
>>>
>>> When income comes in is when I actually use the budget to plan where the
>>> money is going to go (a mixture of Dave Ramsey and YNAB). I use the
>>> Bills/Invoice feature to keep track of the bills that need to be paid,
but
>>> they don't get paid until they are planned for.
>>>
>>> For monitoring purposes, I use the Budget Report to do exactly that. You
>>> can set it up to see a period before and after your current account
period
>>> (mine being set at a quarter), which will show your carryover. I am
always
>>> striving for a balanced budget (move/spend less money to make sure that
the
>>> budget is balanced. But in theory, you could create a second report
with a
>>> longer view (perhaps yearly) to see your overall progress with the
period
>>> before.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:30 AM Patrick <plafratt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andre,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the response. For each two-week period within the
quarter,
>>>> did you just have to copy the budget entries from each column to the
next?
>>>> That is what I would like to avoid, if possible.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to use one budget so that it is easy to see carryover from
>>>> one budget period to the next. If I create a new budget for each
quarter, I
>>>> don't know of a way to get cumulative surplus/deficit for each budget
>>>> category from the previous quarter.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 4:15 AM Andre Powell <apowell656 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Patrick,
>>>>> I made a template and under the Budget menu just make a duplicate/copy
>>>>> as needed (my accounting period is quarterly and the budgets are
every two
>>>>> weeks).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 10:34 PM Patrick <plafratt at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently started using GnuCash. Is there a way to copy one month's
>>>>>> budget
>>>>>> to the next month? I have a budget with a large number of entries,
and
>>>>>> copying each entry individually is somewhat cumbersome.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help is appeciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Patrick
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>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andre
>>>
>>>
>>>
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