QWin 2018: average spending for income/expense category

Quicken Community

I have used Quicken for years, yet even after all of these upgrades, I still dont see a way to do an "Average Monthly" Spending for the Income/Expense Category? I have verified in Quicken Deluxe 2018 this still isnt available. Why? It would seem this would be very easy to add. I cant use "Current Spending vs Average Spending by Category" because it will not allow me to do for current year. Is this a feature that can be implemented rather quickly?

mshiggins

Why don't you use a report for the entire year and divide the total by 12?


Another idea would be to create a budget. The budget defaults to average monthly spending amounts.


A third idea would be to use Expenses topic in the Lifetime Planner. The detailed category expenses will default to average annual spending.

Unknown

Thx for the suggestions, forgot to monitor. Regarding your first suggestion, seems like a pretty easy ask for Quicken to implement. I mean, why should I have to divide every category I have for 12 months, when a simple software feature can take care of this. I am trying to understand what has happened for the last 12 months, then I can plan better with a budget as you have suggested.

Unknown

Thx for the suggestions, forgot to monitor. Regarding your first suggestion, seems like a pretty easy ask for Quicken to implement. I mean, why should I have to divide every category I have for 12 months, when a simple software feature can take care of this. I am trying to understand what has happened for the last 12 months, then I can plan better with a budget as you have suggested.

It is easy to ask for Quicken Inc to implement it.
You just did with this idea.

And it might even be pretty easy for them to implement (what you were really suggesting), but in fact it has to get in line behind all the other things people are ask for.  That is quite a long line, and don't see a ton of people asking for this to get it push up on that line.

There is a ton of things in Quicken that if I could control it I would change first, but I don't own Quicken, and Quicken Inc, and the other customers don't agree with my priorities.  The reality of life!

Unknown

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled It would be great if Quicken would give the option to average the totals for bot....


It would be very helpful if Quicken would have the option to create the average in both Categories and tags. If this was part of reports we could see the average spent in a category and tags for month to date, last month, qtr, year to date and all. Without looking at a budget. 

Unknown

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Average Reports.


I also would support this request.  A column on a report that is the average of whatever timeframe has been selected.  If annual report, than an monthly average of the 12 months, if a quarter report than an average of the 3 months etc.

Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: It would be great if Quicken would give the option to average the totals for bot....

Unknown

Thx for the suggestions, forgot to monitor. Regarding your first suggestion, seems like a pretty easy ask for Quicken to implement. I mean, why should I have to divide every category I have for 12 months, when a simple software feature can take care of this. I am trying to understand what has happened for the last 12 months, then I can plan better with a budget as you have suggested.

I would like this feature.  I used Quicken for Windows and that feature was in there at one time.  I miss this feature and would love to see it return and also be in the MAC version.  Should have just been added from the start.

Janicedmd

After the report I sent it to excel and them divided it by 12. Hope it helps you.

UKR

There isn't a report available to show average actual income/expense for each budget category.
While we're waiting for such a report to be created, there's a way to see average actual income/expense for a single category:

• Go into your Budget view, either Graph view or Annual View.
• Click to select a category.
• Locate the "Category history" icon (looks like a graph with 3 bars) and click it. In the Annual view this icon is in the category name field. In the Graph view it's all the way to the right,
  

This will show you your last 12 months actuals as a bar graph, with a horizontal line showing the average amount. A numeric average amount is shown under the chart title.

If you want a report showing average actual annual income/expense to be added in a future version of Quicken, please do not forget to vote for it.
Locate the big blue box near the top of this webpage (or page 1 for long discussions) and click the "Up" triangle under the voting count. Wait a moment for the vote count to be registered and updated before you continue.

Every vote counts!

bseidel

Need a report showing "average" spent per month. Example: If I spent $12,000 on Food in the year 2020, I want a report telling me I spent an "average" of $1,000 per month. Currently, it seems I have to manually divide the total for the year by 12.

Quicken_Tyka

Hello @bseidel

Thank you for taking the time to visit the Community to post your question, although I apologize that this feature isn't currently offered.

I have moved your post to the ongoing Idea thread to add the ability to generate an average spending report.

Be sure to navigate to the top of this post and click the up arrow to add your vote!

Ideas are reviewed by our development team to see what people would like to be available in the future.

Thank you,

-Quicken Tyka