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Budget: show planned surplus/deficit (expected income − budgeted spending) #4657
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Describe the feature
The budget page never compares expected income with budgeted spending, so a month planned at a deficit looks exactly like a balanced one. Every workaround (budgeting below real spending, planning income in categories, negative amounts) breaks the donut or flags categories as over budget for the whole month.
Proposal: add a Planned surplus / deficit line (expected income − budgeted spending) to the budgeted summary, and keep that summary visible on fully allocated budgets (
available_to_allocate >= 0instead of> 0inbudgets/show.html.erb).Why is this feature important?
A deficit month should be a deliberate decision ("we cover it from savings"), not something the app hides once allocation is done.
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