Better Budgeting
Corresponding bugzilla item: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700802
Budgeting system similar to YNAB, "You Need A Budget". It needs to carry forward over/under spent on budget category from month to month. I cannot use GNUCASH's budget system.
Alan
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Gene
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I agree that GNUCash needs a lot of work to become a good program for budgeting.
I can't speak for YNAB since I have never used it but if it works on the envelope system I am all for it. I recommend looking at the idea that Alan put forward as one good solution to the problem. I don't know how to link to the page but here is the address...
https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/2828200-add-include-subaccounts-checkbox-when-getting-on -
Rick
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I agree, one weekpoint of gnucash is it's budget - it's barely there. My thanks to those who have worked on it but it does need a lot of help. Carry overs, repeating amounts, summaries - at least a year summary would be nice and make it usable. Right now I use the budget report for actuals but keep my budget in an openoffice (Libreoffice) spreadsheet.
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YeOldHinnerk
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The idea of carrying forward the budget should really be just a reporting option. It shouln't be that difficult to implement. Well, who am I talking, never having looked at the code of GNUCASH at all...?
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YeOldHinnerk
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While someone is at it: It should be possible to somehow copy one months' budget to the next month - or did I somehow overlook such a feature? Having to enter each months' budget manually is stone-age technology :)
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he_the_great
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I can't claim I'll be able to produce results, but anything that I do will be a long time coming as I'm just starting to read the code base. If I get as far as I'd like to, automatic transactions would be accounted for in the budget, and since these don't have to be auto-entered will at least suffice for any custom system. This is something I want badly so hopefully I won't get discouraged.
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eMBee
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one problem i have with budgeting is that i can only enter the total for an account. if for example i want to budget a weekly visit to the movies then i need to add up the cost of the ticket times the people in the family times the weeks in the month.
if one of those variables changes, i have to recalculate the total all over again.
improving this could be as simple as allowing to enter a formula. just like you can enter it in a transaction: 10*4*3
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he_the_great
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I've only used MS Money and GnuCash so far and both appear to have the same budgeting focus, monthly. YNAB looks to have that same focus but much closer to what I think needs to happen. Budgeting for categories. Months don't matter, only when money is needed for bills and what income is like. I'm going to see if I can get down and dirty with the code, but anything I do will be modeled after 50-30-20 from "All Your Worth."
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Manfred de Jong commented
From my user perspective the tool is half baked without a budged option. I know that there are many caveats and forms of budgeting, but just choose one sort and implement that in total. Better something then nothing.
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alex
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really needs normal budgeting tool. Existing budgeting is almost a joke... not usable at all
