[GNC] Copy a month's budget

[Patrick]

Hello,

Thank you for the response. You are correct that that was the original
question. As far as I know, no one has yet offered a solution. Someone did
offer an alternative approach, but it would still be helpful for me if
there is a way to copy the entire column without doing it one entry at a
time, as you described.

Regards,
Patrick

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:52 PM Jim Passmore <jim at passmore4.com> wrote:

> 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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