For my personal bookkeeping, throughout the year, I would like to average my monthly expenses and income _over the last year_. That is: from today-1y to today. That way, yearly recurrent expenses and revenues are correctly spread out over the months, but the reports automatically use the most recent data available.
Likewise, with the bar graph or histogram view of my monthly revenues/expenses, I would always like to see 12 bars (the last 12 months). Selecting 'Start of this year' to 'Today' only gives me two bars in February.
In an attempt to reduce the popup dates, one could introduce an hierarchy
Begin date entry:
- This accounting period
- Begin of this
-- Year
-- Trimester
-- Month
- Relative
-- Today
-- Yesterday
-- One month ago
-- One trimester ago
-- One year ago
-- Ever (first book entry)
End date entry:
- This accounting period
- End of current
-- Year
-- Trimester
-- Month
- Relative
-- Today
-- Tomorrow
-- In a month from now
-- In a trimester from now
-- In a year from now
-- Ever
For my personal bookkeeping, throughout the year, I would like to average my monthly expenses and income _over the last year_. That is: from today-1y to today. That way, yearly recurrent expenses and revenues are correctly spread out over the months, but the reports automatically use the most recent data available.
Likewise, with the bar graph or histogram view of my monthly revenues/expenses, I would always like to see 12 bars (the last 12 months). Selecting 'Start of this year' to 'Today' only gives me two bars in February.
In an attempt to reduce the popup dates, one could introduce an hierarchy
Begin date entry:
- This accounting period
- Begin of this
-- Year
-- Trimester
-- Month
- Relative
-- Today
-- Yesterday
-- One month ago
-- One trimester ago
-- One year ago
-- Ever (first book entry)
End date entry:
- This accounting period
- End of current
-- Year
-- Trimester
-- Month
- Relative
-- Today
-- Tomorrow
-- In a month from now
-- In a trimester from now
-- In a year from now
-- Ever