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2.5 KiB
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56 lines
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; A minimal "forecast budget", defined with a periodic transaction rule.
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; We forecast/plan to spend $500 on food each month in 2020:
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~ monthly in 2020
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(expenses:food) $500
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; Some transactions:
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2020-01-15
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expenses:food $400
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assets:checking
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2020-03-15
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expenses:food $600
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assets:checking
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; Some examples of the balance --budget report,
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; which compares the actual (so far) and forecasted amounts.
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; There are some open bugs; here is output from several hledger versions:
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comment
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; the totals row has always been wrong (a bug)
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$ hledger-1.15 -f examples/budgeting/budget1.journal bal --budget -M
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Budget performance in 2020q1:
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|| Jan Feb Mar
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===============++=====================================================================
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<unbudgeted> || $-400 0 $-600
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expenses || $400 [ 80% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500] $600 [ 120% of $500]
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expenses:food || $400 [ 80% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500] $600 [ 120% of $500]
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---------------++---------------------------------------------------------------------
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|| 0 [ 0% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500]
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; since 1.16, Jan is showing no info (a bug)
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; since 1.19, the boring parent "expenses" is elided by default
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$ hledger-1.19.1 -f examples/budgeting/budget1.journal bal --budget -M
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Budget performance in 2020Q1:
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|| Jan Feb Mar
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===============++=====================================================================
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<unbudgeted> || $-400 0 $-600
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expenses:food || $400 0 [ 0% of $500] $600 [ 120% of $500]
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---------------++---------------------------------------------------------------------
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|| 0 0 [ 0% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500]
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; since 1.19.99, columns shrink to fit and can vary in width
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$ hledger -f examples/budgeting/budget1.journal bal --budget -M
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Budget performance in 2020Q1:
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|| Jan Feb Mar
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===============++=============================================
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<unbudgeted> || $-400 0 $-600
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expenses:food || $400 0 [0% of $500] $600 [120% of $500]
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---------------++---------------------------------------------
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|| 0 0 [0% of $500] 0 [ 0% of $500]
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