On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:50:45 -0400 Phil Longstaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for > others. :-) > For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, it is > good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months but a > large expense in 1 month, it is not as good because to make it work out over > the year, you need to budget the expense over 12 months. On the other hand, > if you think of the budget as "put money away for the upcoming trip", then it > does work out. Put $200 per month into savings and then when it gets big > enough, spend it on the trip. Correct. I want to create a budget for the whole year...most of expenses are 'monthly-regular', but e.g. I'd like that for non-regular expenses like car-insurance, utility bills for heating etc. to take into account that those are not evenly distributed and/or do happen just once in year, so e.g. if total cost of re-registering/insurance of my car does cost $600, it would be nice that budget's Estimate function would distribute it as $50/month (although Doug's Average report does compensate it), so that I can know that in my spending I have to put $50 aside per month to take into account such one-time-expense-per-year. > I haven't had much time to spend recently on the budget code but do hope to > get back to it. Doug's report makes me enthusiastic to learn some Scheme/Guile, but here I do wonder whether the above-discussed budget features could by solved by it or do they require C-surgery? Sincerely, Gour -- What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
