[Kmymoney] Re: Introduction & Budgeting question

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hello Ian,
the budget yearly report might give you kind of what you want, but not quite.

Thanks for the feedback!

Regards,
Alvaro

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Ian Waddington <iwaddox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Introduction
> I've have been looking for an MS-Money replacement to start using from the
> New Year and have been considering Gnucash, however, over the weekend
> someone very kindly pointed out that the answers to some of my questions had
> already been answered by the recent release of KMyMoney so here I am.  I
> have it installed 4.5.0 onto a clean Kubuntu 10.10 build onto an old laptop
> and so far so good.  I did wonder about trying the app on Windows 7 bit
> thought I'd leave that till another day.  It was the complete lack of
> forecasting that I couldn't fathom in Gnucash, how do I stop going overdrawn
> using Gnucash if I cannot forecast my balance.
> My budgeting question
> I have a question about how KMyMoney deals with annual budgeting items. If I
> budget £120 to be spent at any time during the year I'd like to know what by
> budget would be at the beginning of February for the remainder of the year
> if I had spent nothing during January. By my math it should still be £120,
> could someone please let me know if this is how KMyMoney works?  If it is I
> might be able to discard my spreadsheets.
> To summarise my point - monthly budgets are just that monthly, you either
> spend it or lose it, whereas the annual budget should be available all year
> (until overspent of course).
>
> Regards
>
> Ian
>
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