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# Budget dialog

The budget dialog is the main interface to edit, modify and manage your budget. Please refer to the using the budget feature for details on how using this feature.
You also have a table view version of this dialog since v5.3, see below.

## Dialog call

- main window menu: Manage / Budget
- main window tool bar.

## Using budget dialog

### Expense/Income switcher

Toggle the category list with Expense/Income categories only

### Menu button

Import | import the budget from a CSV file.
Export | export the budget to a CSV file.

Please refer to CSV file format for the file description.

### Category list

display the list of categories and subcategories of the current wallet.

= category has budget set (and is also displayed bold)
= category is forced to be displayed

### Budget totals

This is the totals for the current budget.

### Budget for ...

is the same each month | category budget will be the same for every month: Jan -> Dec you can then fill the amount below
is different per month | category budget will be specific each month you can then fill the amount of each needed months
Jan, Feb, ..., Dec | The amount for each month
Clear input | clear any budget for the selected category

### Options

Force monitoring this category | By default, if a transaction has no amount (0.00) it it not displayed into the budget report. This checkbox will change this and can manage such case.

# Table view budget dialog

## Using budget table view dialog

the way of using this winodw is quite the same, only the displaying chnages.