I had written my own report for version 2.6 that does this. Now I see that it won't run in 3.7. This email prompted me to look at 3.7 and this report. I found that if I enable accumulated amounts and the diff column, then turn off the budget and actual columns the report works rather nicely for envelope budgeting. At this point you just see how much money is left in each budget per month.

On 10/4/19 4:41 AM, Antonio07 wrote:
Hi

In version 3.7 accumulated accounts option was introduced in Budget reports

However by using it I have found that logic is that Budget and Actual -
simply summing all "period" amount

For Example:
1. I have 24 month budget
2. For each month I budgeted 320$ in category 'Food'
     - now I'm in October - it's 22nd month of my Budget
     - if I use accumulated amount it shows that I have budget for October
7040$ for 'Food' (but in reality I have only 320$)

3. Each month I have spent from 300 to 330 as actuals and now have
accumulated Actuals for October - 6500$
4. So accumulated difference 540$

Can it be change report format to show "Rolling" accumulated amounts?


For Example

1. Period 21 - we have budgeted for 'Food'  +320$
2. Period 21 - we have actuals for 'Food'  -300$
3. Period 21 - We have difference for 'Food' +20$ (positive)

4. Period 22 - we have budgeted for 'Food' +300$
5. Period 22 - we have actuals for 'Food' -100$ (so far)
6. Period 22 - we have difference  = (Difference amount from period 21
'+20$' ) + (Budgeted amount from period 22 '+300$') - (Actuals from period
22 '-100$') = 20$ + 300$ - 100$ = 220$


By using we can avoid confusing end-user with huge accumulated numbers - and
also keep concept if accumulating budget for some Big Goal - like budget
100$ every month for 1200$ vacation in the end of the year




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