Budgets
Budgets on a per-account basis can be added via custom
directives in the
Beancount file:
If budgets are specified, Fava's reports and charts will display remaining budgets and related information.
The budget directives can be specified daily
, weekly
, monthly
, quarterly
and yearly
. The specified budget is valid until another budget directive for
the account is specified. The budget is broken down to a daily budget, and
summed up for a range of dates as needed.
This makes the budgets very flexible, allowing for a monthly budget, being taken over by a weekly budget, and so on.
Fava displays budgets in both charts and reports. You can find a visualization
of the global budget in the Net Profit
and Expenses
charts for the Income
Statement report.
The Income Statement report is a good starting point for getting access to the
full budget information in Fava. The Changes
charts visualize the data. The
Changes (monthly)
and Balances (monthly)
reports show, respectively, the
monthly and cumulative (over the selected period) budgets.