While my understanding of the budget features lacks depth, I do believe that the estimating features average the transactions in the time frame you choose, so the start date should reflect the time period for which you want estimates derived. If your expenses have been stable for a long time, you could use the whole data set; if they have changed radically for some reason,you might wish to limit the averaging period to a smaller set.
David On August 2, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Gour <g...@atmarama.com> wrote: Hello! I've asked in IRC and it's not clear to me what to put as the start date in the dialog concerning Estimating budget-values for the accounts based from the past history of transactions? For instance, if I have several years of history and want to create a budget for this 2017 year, along with 12 (monthly) periods, what should I put as the start date for estimating budget values? Sincerely, Gour -- Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish? _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
