David, I don't know of any tutorials but budgeting around fixed assets would have to be based on their potential income generating capacity in the period being budgeted for including returns like rent or lease returns or dividends for securities held - less any maintenace expenditure and costs (e.g depreciation, repair and maintenance etc) incurred in the budget period in generating those returns. You could also consider the potential gains and losses as a result fo selling long term assets.
If you have historical data, then that is a good point to start from and then modify on the basis of what you expect changes to be from the historical values to the current period. If you have no histoical data to base your budget on then you have to do a lot more research to get some idea of wht future period data might be. In some cases you can look at relationships to relevant economic indicators. While not a tutorial for GnuCash as such, sites like http://www.businessplanhut.com/calculating-fixed-assets-budget can give you some insights. Most of your budget preparation is likely to be outside GnuCash in any case (apart from extraction of historical data) and Gnucash will only record the outcomes of such calculations for you to eveluate the future performance against. David Cousens David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.