jGnash has a budgeting feature that makes it easy for you to define spending and income goals by account and bump those goals up against your actual transactions. A compact graphical overview of each budgeting period is provided to highlight how well you are following your budget based on selectable periods.
Tracking how well you follow your budget can be an eye opening experience and can lead to better financial health.
Multiple budgets are supported and may be copied making it easy to try out different scenarios and create year specific budgets if desired.
Allowed accounts for budget are limited to Income and Expense accounts.
Accounts may be excluded from showing in a budget by setting the exclude flag in the account properties dialog.
The reporting period for budgets may be daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly and can be changed as needed.
The per account budget goals may also be entered in daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly periods and are independent of the budget reporting period.
The budget may be exported to a spreadsheet.
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The reported period of the budget is independent of the per account budget goal period. Example: Your salary is paid in bi-weekly intervals, but you want to see your budget reported by month. You can change the period for the income account to weekly or daily and enter your salary. When reported by month, jGnash automatically handles the difference in the periods 1and distributes your bi-weekly salary income across monthly boundaries. |