Compares monthly totals for categories to the budget amt entered for that category. When generating a budgets report, you must specify a "from date" and a "to date". The report will begin with the month of the "from date" and end with the month of the "to date". Even if you specify a day other than the first/last of the month, all the entries for the start/end months are used in calculating the report.
For example, say you have a debit category "Food", with the Budget ON flag set and a Budget Amount of $100.00. In the report setup you select Budget Report, with from/to dates of 1/1/88 and 3/1/88. The report created will begin with "January 88" and show the amount total in the category "Food", the amount Budgeted ($100) and the per cent the total was over or under budget. It will show the same calculation for February and March, and end with a summary showing totals for the entire report.
NOTE: Only categories that have the Budget ON flag set appear in Budgets Reports.
Even if you have no need of comparing the amount you spend or earn in a category with a set budget amount, you can use this kind of report for looking at category totals by month; the other way to do this would require creating a separate categories report for each month.
