[Kmymoney] Re: Introduction & Budgeting question

Ian Waddington iwaddox at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 13:57:32 CET 2010


Thank you, I think I will submit a development request.

I understand the logic as it is what I use in my spreadsheet so quite
easy to write the spec.

I am also wondering how I might write my own report, but have not yet
considered the possibilities.

Regards

Ian

On 29 Nov 2010, at 12:49, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Ian Waddington <iwaddox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> The yearly budgeted amounts will appear in the budget related reports
> as split up for each month which is a bit strange because if you spend
> the whole sum in one month you'll end up being negative on all the
> other months. So the trick is when reading budgeting reports for
> yearly sums only look at the last column (showing the total).
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
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