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Not fully understanding monthly budget feature
Why are there only assets to choose for the budget target? You write in your documentation, that every expense account is a fully fledged account - so I created a cash expense account (as you recommended if you are unsatisfied when you have to enter your 0.99 chocolate bars). This should also be a budget target, should'nt it?
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Inappropriate?I'm sometimes (more than I'd wish for) shortsighted in the implementation of features, as you could see with the CSV encoding thing. This is another example. I thought it made no sense to have another income/expense as a budget target but I was wrong. I'll add this for v1.5
Meanwhile, a workaround is just to reduce the budget you set for Cash (I guess that you do set a budget for it for ATM withdrawal) and set the target for the budget of your expense account to the account you plan to make your cash withdrawals from. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for your quick support. The case for budgeting other expense accounts (not for cash) is that I also do my errands using cash (which is not an asset, as described before). I want to use the budget feature to set expected expenses that are considered in the graphs, not to set myself some limits.
Great to see that this will make it into 1.5! You do an excellent job with your work. I recommended moneyGuru to a colleague of mine, maybe you get another customer soon ;)
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?I have an additional suggestion regarding the monthly budget feature (since I would miss this): the best way to set monthly budgets is to allow several targets, as it is in the split transaction dialog for several expense accounts. So it would be possible to have several assets and expense accounts like "Cash" that act as budgeting targets.
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Inappropriate?I have other plans for the budgeting feature. It will not be as you describe, but it would allow multiple targets.
The design for this is not completely thought out yet and it will not be in 1.5, but it's coming.
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