On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:57:31 -0800 Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, > If what you need is to simply report the difference between the actual > expense per period against some allocated amount (e.g. (500-x) for > each month where x is the expenses for that month) that's a new > reporting feature, not a budgeting feature. You can probably do > something with the SQL shell or by writing a script. (I should add > the capability to subtract in the shell target values to support > this, e.g., SELECT 500 - sum(position.units.number) budgeting is the only thing which (still) prevents me to decide using beancount over (h)ledger and I realize that in regard to budgets I'm only interesting to see report how the money is spent, eg. whether our expenses for Food, Fuel etc. are within some pre-defined monthly limit or not and to be able to adjust spendings accordingly per year, so I wonder what is the current situation in Beancount in regard to this, iow. whether the current set of features does enable the above mentioned solution for budgeting? Sincerely, Gour -- But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated — for him there is no duty. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20170909103505.1053d61b%40atmarama.dtdns.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
