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<font face="Verdana">Unless I'm overseeing something, budgetting 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 (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 with
your normal bean-counting tasks. Which means you really should
be doing the exercise twice: one for <br>
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