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<font face="Verdana">Hi,<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><font face="Verdana">Unless I'm
overseeing something, budgeting in KMM seems to have a periodic
scope. Even if you choose individual budgets, you're still
bounded by the year. Otherwise you'll select month or year.<br>
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For projects with fixed budgets this doesn't work. Let me
explain why:<br>
I've just bought a vacation house which needs restoration. We've
agreed on a budget for the various expenses:<br>
- renovation<br>
- decoration<br>
- travel<br>
- acquisition price<br>
</font><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">- acquisition
costs (notary, transfer taxes, etc)<br>
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</font>These are fixed size lump sums budgets. I would love to
be able to handle those budgets from KMM. Which doesn't work
with the existing budgeting functionality, for as far as I could
tell.<br>
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I've found a workaround which is pretty slick, if I may say so,
but has its downsides:<br>
For each of the budgets I've setup asset accounts with a
starting value. The starting value is the size of the budget.
(values are fictive):<br>
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Assets:<br>
<font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">- renovation (€15,000)<br>
- decoration (€8,000)<br>
- travel (€1,500)<br>
- acquisition price (€100,000)<br>
</font><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">- acquisition
costs (notary, transfer taxes, etc) (€15,000)<br>
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If I'm making an expense, I'm withdrawing it from one of the
asset accounts (=budget).<br>
Benefits: You have crystal clear overview over your budgets,
and surpluses or shortages are instantly visible.<br>
Downside: It's really a budgeting solution only. It's not
the same as general bookkeeping. You can't easily integrate
this with your normal bean-counting tasks. Because the
asset accounts are not real accounts. Which means you really
should be doing the exercise twice: one time for your
budgets, and one time for your reall accounts.<br>
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Would it be possibile to modify the budgeting functionality
to also support fixed size/project scoped budgets?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Koos<br>
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