Budget 3 Month Average Calculated Incorrectly
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Bryce Manhardt
The suggested value of 3 month average in the Budget tab ignores null months.
Most panel data software ignores nulls for good reason - but when it comes to finances, months with null spend most definitely should be interpreted as $0 of spend.
Example Spend for X Category:
January: $900
Febuary: --
March: --
Suggested budget of 3 month average: $900
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Din from Lunch Money
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This was addressed in release #238. 🎉
The "average spend last 3 periods" option now includes months with no activity in the calculation.
Thanks to everyone who requested and voted on this!
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Matt Unsworth
I just wrote this up myself before I noticed you had submitted the same thing. I don't know if this is expected behavior but I'd argue that the average across all months is the more useful value for planning. The average of only non-null months isn't very helpful.
As Andre mentioned, this same behavior occurs in the query tool.
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André
I'm bothered by this as well.
Shouldn't be that hard to know the average expenses per month but in this app it is. This also happens in Analyze - if you have months without a certain category expense now you have your averages wrong.