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 <plafr...@gmail.com> 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 <apowell...@gmail.com> 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 <plafr...@gmail.com 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 >>> 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. >>> >> -- Andre _______________________________________________ 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.