Possible improvement to budgets using budget rules

[Phil Longstaff]

Currently, the libdbi library is used to provide SQL access.  However, the 
library is abstracted out, so it would be possible to access the data through 
a different library.

There is a core set of tables for the core objects.  The business modules add 
another set of tables for the business objects.  I don't know how hard it 
would be for you to write a module to gnucash with your budgeting stuff.

Gnucash does have some budgeting support.  The 'budgets' table contains the 
basic info for a budget.  Each budget will have an entry in the 'recurrences' 
table which describes each budget period (which defaults to 'month' but can be 
different).  Then, each budget can have an amount per account per period.   
Finally, the budget report shows budget/actual/difference for each period.  
I've been doing some work to make the budget report more useful (at least to 
me).

It sounds as though your rules provide heuristics and algorithms to generate 
the budget amounts per period per account.

Phil