Budgeting with different time periods

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TLDR: I want a monthly budget that allows me to choose a date range for my expenses (credit card statement) and a different date range for my income. Does something like this exist?

Need some advice on non-standard budgeting periods. I get paid on the 6th and 21st and my partner is paid every other week. Currently, I use our latter paycheck to pay the mortgage and utilities. Our first paychecks + the remainder of the previous two paychecks are used to pay the previous month’s credit card bill. This means that revenue coming in the beginning of December should really be attributed to November. To make it more confusing, my credit card bill doesn’t always end on the last day of the month, so transactions from 11/ 30 would actually be on my December statement but count against my November budget.

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Would you be opposed to manually changing the Date for the income transactions so that they correspond with the month you are trying to budget for?

Otherwise, you might be able to make some edits to the formulas in the hidden columns (after K through AC) in the Monthly Budget sheet.

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This has always bothered me too. but for expenses. Checks that don’t get cashed until the following month, credit card transactions that end up in the next month statement, etc… Income would be a bigger issue.

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