As long as the change in value isn't cumulative, I would want to know.
If I wanted to budget the same 'purchasing power' as last period/year, I would not want to budget the exact same nominal amount. (on that note, a feature to factor inflation for budgets would be swell!)
But I do understand that previous rates are no guarantee of future rates. (exchange or inflation) They provide a starting point though.
All of that would only affect my *next* budget, via Actual, not the current one. (it might also explain Variance) So I still think there's a potential bug.
Regards, Adrien On 1/7/23 11:35 AM, ml enquirer wrote:
Hi Fred, Thanks for the thought! I agree the change in value is 10,000. My point is, basically, that I don't care about currency fluctuations in money already spent when planning *next* year's budget. But the 'problem' (which might just be that I need someone to explain what a 'budget' is!) is (at least) two fold: 1) When I think 'budget' I think "planning how much I can spend in this budget period". So I want the report to tell me that. If there are no transactions in any child account, I don't expect a non-zero total in the parent account. I certainly don't want a non-zero total that depends how long I've been using gnucash. In the first year of using Gnucash, this shows the total expense. In the 100th (hopefully!) year of using Gnucash, this mainly shows the currency fluctuation of the history of my grocery spending in years 0-99! These are totally different things, at least for the typical use of an expense account like 'groceries'. 2) The budget report and the budget view seem to show the totals aggregating in different ways. I would expect correspondence. When you think "budgetting this year's groceries", why would you care about having to plan for the currency fluctuation in what has already been spent, and which is no longer available to spend, and which has no impact on what can be spent this year? Is there another report that you'd recommend that I use? Let me be gently provocative: I think my described use-case is more widely relevant, at least for expense accounts if not for asset accounts ;) But as I keep on saying, I'm very ignorant of even basic accountancy techniques, so feel free to (gently) teach me!
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