[GNC] Creating Reports

[Jon Schewe]

John,
The budget report is close to what you want here. However the spending
there is based on the budget plan, so if your income varies from check
to check, then it won't show what you are looking for. 
Another option to think about is to use separate accounts for all long
term savings and then just look at the checking account balance. If you
pay all of your bills out of the checking account and you make sure to
move all money for long-term savings out of the checking account, then
what is left is your discretionary.I have sub-accounts of my savings
account setup in GnuCash that don't match real bank accounts. These are
used to hold the money that I need for bills that are paid every 6
months or 12 months. Then the balance in my savings account is what
isn't already allocated. Doing this for your checking account would
likely work.
Jon
On Mon, 2021-08-09 at 11:43 -0500, John M Dennis wrote:
> Good Day to yo all!
> I have just set up my family finances with GnuCash (version4.6) and
> am looking into the various reports. What I need, and have yet to
> find, is a simply report my wife and I can access to see how well me
> are doing with our budget each day. Specifically I am looking for the
> following:
> 
> 	Checking Acct #1	Today's Balance+	Checking Acct #2	
> Today's Balance=	Daily Balance	Subtotal-	Budgeted	
> Total amount budgeted for the current pay period. This would include
> All Budgeted Expenses & Amounts Transferred to holding accounts for
> later payments. This could also be expandable to the various sub
> accounts I have set up+	Paid	Amounts already paid out for
> all expenses and transfers to Holding Accounts. These cold also be
> expandable to include sub accounts.=	Available Balance	What is left
> for discretionary spending. This is the big one that I would like to
> see spelled out for us.
> 		
> Each of the reports I have seen and played with will do some of this
> but i haven't seen any that will give me all of it. If there is
> something out there or if I am missing something, I would really like
> to know.
> Anyone who could help me out with this, I would really appreciate.
> Thank you very much.
> John
> 
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