Andre, Thanks for the advice. This definitely gives me some possible alternatives to consider.
I am not able to find a page that gives the etiquette rules for this mailing list. Is top-posting preferred on this list? I noticed that some people do and some don't. Thanks, Patrick On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 AM Andre Powell <apowell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick, > The method that I use for budgeting is well "old-fashioned". My salary is > paid every fifteen days and my wife once a month, hence the two-week setup, > and the quarterly view because in my prior career we managed our P&Ls > monthly but with quarterly plans so mentally I am kind of used to that way > of thinking (or maybe I don't want to scroll so much). > > When income comes in is when I actually use the budget to plan where the > money is going to go (a mixture of Dave Ramsey and YNAB). I use the > Bills/Invoice feature to keep track of the bills that need to be paid, but > they don't get paid until they are planned for. > > For monitoring purposes, I use the Budget Report to do exactly that. You > can set it up to see a period before and after your current account period > (mine being set at a quarter), which will show your carryover. I am always > striving for a balanced budget (move/spend less money to make sure that the > budget is balanced. But in theory, you could create a second report with a > longer view (perhaps yearly) to see your overall progress with the period > before. > > I hope this helps. > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:30 AM Patrick <plafr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Andre, >> >> Thank you for the response. For each two-week period within the quarter, >> did you just have to copy the budget entries from each column to the next? >> That is what I would like to avoid, if possible. >> >> I would like to use one budget so that it is easy to see carryover from >> one budget period to the next. If I create a new budget for each quarter, I >> don't know of a way to get cumulative surplus/deficit for each budget >> category from the previous quarter. >> >> Thanks, >> Patrick >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 4:15 AM Andre Powell <apowell...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Patrick, >>> I made a template and under the Budget menu just make a duplicate/copy >>> as needed (my accounting period is quarterly and the budgets are every two >>> weeks). >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 10:34 PM Patrick <plafr...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I recently started using GnuCash. Is there a way to copy one month's >>>> budget >>>> to the next month? I have a budget with a large number of entries, and >>>> copying each entry individually is somewhat cumbersome. >>>> >>>> Any help is appeciated. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Patrick >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>>> ----- >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>>> >>> > > -- > Andre > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
