[GNC] Copy a month's budget

[Jim Passmore]

I don't think the original question has been addressed--did I miss the
answer?  I understood the question to be "is there  a way to copy an entire
column of budget values?"  Whether it's a month at a time, in a 12 month
period, or two weeks at a time in a quarter, if you have several expense
account parents, with sub-accounts underneath, it takes a while to copy the
entire column one entry at a time [by memory it's arrow down, return, type
value, return...and repeat for each account].  Surely there should be a way
to duplicate a column?

-- 

*Jim Passmore*



On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:09 PM 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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