Budget vs Actual report only offers 'Custom' option in the drop-down menu. Is there a way to bring back the normal list of choices (ie. This Month, This Year, etc...)?

Hello GlinetteC,

Thank you for your reply.

I am a little confused by your suggestion to export the report. What I am trying to do is the opposite from 'customizing' the report.

All reports have a 'Report Period' field that gets applied to the data shown in the reports. That Report Period is always a drop-down menu with many options, such as: This Month, This Year, This Quarter, etc ...

For some reason, the Report Period drop-down menu in the Budget vs Actual reports does ONLY provide the option 'Custom'. I am interested on being able to select other Report Period options, such as: This Year, This Month, This Quarter, etc ...

Is there a way to bring back all options for the Report Period drop-down menu for the Budget vs Actual report?

Thank you,

JOHN CRIST

Allow me to step in, John Crist.

I appreciate you clarifying things. Let me share a few details about the reporting period that you're looking for. 

There's a bit change in the Custom drop down within the Budget vs. Actual report. You may access the reporting period in the Customize screen.

Let me show you how:

1. Open the report. 
2. Click on the Customize button.
3. Go to Rows.
4. In the Show Grid drop down, choose either Accounts vs. Months, Accounts vs. Qtrs or Accounts vs. Total.
5. Click on Run report.

I've attached some screenshots below, so you'll know what I'm referring to.

If this isn't something that you're looking for on the report, please know that we are constantly improving our product's features to meet your needs. I suggest checking back for any product updates and feature enhancements through our website.

Here's the link for your reference: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/blog/.

This should point you in the right direction. Please let me know if you have further questions. I'll be here to keep helping.

I am hoping this clarifies somewhat.  I think there is a misunderstanding about the drop-down for "Report Period".  It used to be that we could select a budget vs actual report for the same report periods as the other reports - this year, this month, last year, etc.  

Now, because of the limitation, running just this specific reports to be automatically emailed for example, becomes useless as the reporting period cannot be set. Particularly for those of us with shareholders, Boards, etc., this is an important ability and a real annoyance to have to manually work around every month.

Since the report used to work this way, it is not a new feature, but perhaps that is how it needs to be reported in your workflow so please feel free to address this however is necessary.

STILL waiting for this change to take place!

Scheduling tool is not helpful if it won't use MONTHLY