Ordering debits (I finally have a complaint!)

[Robert Heller]

  David Frascone <dave at frascone.com>,
  In a message on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:43:16 -0500, wrote :

DF> When several credits and debits occur on the same day, Quicken is nice
DF> enough to order the credits before the debits.  Is there a way to make
DF> Gnucash do the same?  I run into an issue when I try to eyeball my
DF> balance, when my register looks like this:
DF> 
DF>                                		Amount		Balance
DF> 01/15/04 whatever                                       100.05
DF> 01/15/04 Car bill        		100		0.05
DF> 01/15/04 Electric bill			100		-99.95
DF> 01/15/04 Gas Bill			100		-199.95
DF> 01/15/04 Paycheck				500	300.05
DF> 
DF> Instead of:
DF> 
DF>                                		Amount		Balance
DF> 01/15/04 whatever                                       100.05
DF> 01/15/04 Paycheck				500	600.05
DF> 01/15/04 Car bill        		100		500.05
DF> 01/15/04 Electric bill			100		400.05
DF> 01/15/04 Gas Bill			100		300.05
DF> 
DF> 
DF> My issue is, that I schedule my paycheck, so that I can tell how much
DF> money I have left over at the end of the month, by looking at the
DF> balance before my paycheck hits.  In the first case, it's negative.  In
DF> the second, it's 100.05.

Yeah, this seems to be a issue of how to order transactions that occur
on the same day -- GnuCash seems to be 'mindlessly' doing an ASCII
ordering by transaction name.  'Paycheck' is somewhat late in the
ordering (eg later than most bills, like Car, Credit, Food, Electric,
or Gas -- this is an (unfortunate?) 'feature' of the English
language...). I too would find it helpful if Credits would get a
ordering precedence.

DF> 
DF> Later,
DF> 
DF> -Dave
DF> 
DF> -- 
DF> David Frascone
DF> 
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