Show current accounts

[Colin Law]

On 6 December 2016 at 08:22, scott223 <scott.brugmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> I have been using gnucash for a few months now and i really like the
> application, thank you for all the hard work you put in there.
>
> One thing that i cannot figure out is the following. I have a nice structure
> with accounts and i regularly update with past transactions. More recently,
> i have also started to add more and more future transactions (like inserting
> all my mortgage payments etc). However, when i now look at the accounts
> overview it takes in the balance of all past *and* future transactions. for
> example, my mortgage shows zero (since i put in all transactions already)
> but i still have a long way to go :)

An alternative way to handle this rather than, for instance, inserting
all future mortgage payments, is to use the Scheduled Transaction
feature to just enter then next payment  at an appropriate time. I
setup the scheduled transactions to enter all of the next months
regular payments at the start of the month (but dated with the
expected real date for each one) as my income arrives at the start of
the month.  Then the final balance on the account shows the amount
after all expected bills have been paid that month which, for me, is
the critical figure.

Colin