hledger/examples/budgeting/forecast-budget-3.journal
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; https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/e5sl1m/advice_on_projectionsforecasts/
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; I've been reading up in preparation for switching to pta in 2020
; from my current ad hoc spreadsheet. The forecasting docs/tutorial
; for hledger answer many of my questions but I'm wondering about how
; to duplicate a forecasting page of my spreadsheet.
; On this page, I list all my future expenses with estimates for each.
; However I don't assign any dates to most of the expenses since they
; don't really have an associated date. As the year progresses and I
; book expenses against these accounts I update the page with an
; actual vs. estimated amount. This is just a big picture view of a
; year's expenses vs. expected revenue so I have a better idea of what
; big purchases I can plan for or maybe have to delay until the
; following year.
; This doesn't seem to fit within the typical forecasting/budget
; reports I've seen, does anyone have tips or examples that might help
; me generate a similar report with a ledger-like (I haven't chosen
; the software I'll use yet but probably ledger or hledger). Thanks!
~ 2020
(expenses:rent) $12000
(expenses:food) $6000
2020/1/1
expenses:rent $1000
assets:checking
2020/1/5
expenses:food $100
assets:checking
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$ hledger bal expenses --budget -YS --tree
Budget performance in 2020:
|| 2020
==========++=========================
expenses || $1100 [ 6% of $18000]
rent || $1000 [ 8% of $12000]
food || $100 [ 2% of $6000]
----------++-------------------------
|| $1100 [ 6% of $18000]