I find that using the Income and Expense reports makes a cleaner budget report than the PowerChurch Budget Report when used in this way:

Since our budgets are divided up month-by-month, we like to see a year-to-date expense compared to a 12-month budget. Therefore, we use the Income and Expense Report from January to December, no matter what month it is (to get the 12-month budget to show up).

In column 2, we choose “Current Budget”.

In column 3, we choose “Current Budget Difference”

In column 3, we choose “Current Budget Percentage”

For one thing, this report doesn’t include account numbers, unless you want it to. There is no option to turn off account numbers in the “Budget Report”.

It just looks “cleaner” as well. Hard to explain other than “try it!”