[GNC] Budgeting

[Adrien Monteleone]

It would be especially useful for a scenario like wanting to budget a percent change from that historical baseline. Adding an export/import facility for budgets, if not a direct copy/paste would preclude having to code such options into GnuCash. You could just export last year’s report, modify as needed, then re-import as next year’s budget.

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 6, 2020 w19d127, at 8:09 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed May 6 13:33:24 EDT 2020 Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 6, 2020 w19d127, at 4:23 AM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ... It would be really useful to be able to export as a csv, change it
> and import it back in.
>> 
>> Are you referring to export/import of the budget?
> 
> Yes. Exporting as a csv would provide the best template for an import file.
> 
> Even with all accounts and amounts selected they can't be copied to the
> clipboard. A report should be able to be generated, opened in a
> spreadsheet, and changed but the amounts would have to be manually entered.
> I am not aware of people successfully changing the tables directly outside
> of GnuCash.
> 
> The issue is the previous year's expenditure is at best a guide to the
> current year's expenditure and will most likely require customisation. A
> spreadsheet is a much more convenient tool than GnuCash for this process.