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QWin 2018: average spending for income/expense category

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?
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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.
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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!
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.
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....
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:
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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.
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-Quicken Tyka