Will the Comparative Income Statement work for you? This statement shows all Revenue and Expense accounts and can show the Budget for the same accounts. another column can be added to show the difference by percentage or dollar value. The budget figures obviously have to be input into Sage 50 and I find it works best when the budget is allocated by month.

Will the Comparative Income Statement work for you? This statement shows all Revenue and Expense accounts and can show the Budget for the same accounts. another column can be added to show the difference by percentage or dollar value. The budget figures obviously have to be input into Sage 50 and I find it works best when the budget is allocated by month.

Here's how to set up a comparative income statement to show budgets:

The 'budget' setting is kind of an Easter-Egg in the grey on slightly less gray theme.

And to get the screen to look like Randy's you need to turn on budgeting

Setup> Settings> General> Budget> Click the box and set your budget frequency. OK

Thank you everyone.  This helped

Thank you.

Thank you Chels for asking the question, if you hadn't I would never have noticed there was a handy Expenses Vs. Budget graph!

I had made the assumption that the original poster already had budgeting switched on and set in the accounts, only couldn't get expenses vs budget numbers displayed.