;doc: bal: try to improve description of budget report differences

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Simon Michael 2023-04-25 12:39:28 -10:00
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@ -548,18 +548,14 @@ Budget performance in 2017/11/01-2017/12/31:
|| 0 [ 0] 0 [ 0]
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This is different from a normal balance report in several ways:
This is different from a normal balance report in several ways. Currently:
- Only accounts with budget goals during the report period are shown, by default.
- In each column, in square brackets after the actual amount,
budget goal amounts are shown, and the actual/goal percentage.
(Note: budget goals should be in the same commodity as the actual amount.)
- All parent accounts are always shown, even in list mode.
Eg assets, assets:bank, and expenses above.
- Amounts always include all subaccounts, budgeted or unbudgeted, even in list mode.
- Accounts with budget goals during the report period, and their parents, are shown.
- Their subaccounts are not shown (regardless of the depth setting).
- Accounts without budget goals, if any, are aggregated and shown as "\<unbudgeted>".
- Amounts are always inclusive (subaccount-including), even in list mode.
- After each actual amount, the corresponding goal amount and percentage
of goal reached are also shown, in square brackets.
This means that the numbers displayed will not always add up!
Eg above, the `expenses` actual amount includes the gifts and supplies transactions,