I don't think the original question has been addressed--did I miss the answer? I understood the question to be "is there a way to copy an entire column of budget values?" Whether it's a month at a time, in a 12 month period, or two weeks at a time in a quarter, if you have several expense account parents, with sub-accounts underneath, it takes a while to copy the entire column one entry at a time [by memory it's arrow down, return, type value, return...and repeat for each account]. Surely there should be a way to duplicate a column?
-- *Jim Passmore* On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:09 PM Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Andre, > > Thanks for the advice. This definitely gives me some possible alternatives > to consider. > > I am not able to find a page that gives the etiquette rules for this > mailing list. Is top-posting preferred on this list? I noticed that some > people do and some don't. > > Thanks, > Patrick > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 AM Andre Powell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Patrick, > > The method that I use for budgeting is well "old-fashioned". My salary is > > paid every fifteen days and my wife once a month, hence the two-week > setup, > > and the quarterly view because in my prior career we managed our P&Ls > > monthly but with quarterly plans so mentally I am kind of used to that > way > > of thinking (or maybe I don't want to scroll so much). > > > > When income comes in is when I actually use the budget to plan where the > > money is going to go (a mixture of Dave Ramsey and YNAB). I use the > > Bills/Invoice feature to keep track of the bills that need to be paid, > but > > they don't get paid until they are planned for. > > > > For monitoring purposes, I use the Budget Report to do exactly that. You > > can set it up to see a period before and after your current account > period > > (mine being set at a quarter), which will show your carryover. I am > always > > striving for a balanced budget (move/spend less money to make sure that > the > > budget is balanced. But in theory, you could create a second report with > a > > longer view (perhaps yearly) to see your overall progress with the period > > before. > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:30 AM Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Andre, > >> > >> Thank you for the response. For each two-week period within the quarter, > >> did you just have to copy the budget entries from each column to the > next? > >> That is what I would like to avoid, if possible. > >> > >> I would like to use one budget so that it is easy to see carryover from > >> one budget period to the next. If I create a new budget for each > quarter, I > >> don't know of a way to get cumulative surplus/deficit for each budget > >> category from the previous quarter. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Patrick > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 4:15 AM Andre Powell <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Patrick, > >>> I made a template and under the Budget menu just make a duplicate/copy > >>> as needed (my accounting period is quarterly and the budgets are every > two > >>> weeks). > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 10:34 PM Patrick <[email protected] wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I recently started using GnuCash. Is there a way to copy one month's > >>>> budget > >>>> to the next month? I have a budget with a large number of entries, and > >>>> copying each entry individually is somewhat cumbersome. > >>>> > >>>> Any help is appeciated. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Patrick > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>>> ----- > >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >>>> > >>> > > > > -- > > Andre > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
