Reconciliation RFE

[mikep@crt.com]

I will investigate this.  My time is limited by if it is straight forward
I'd be willing to do it as it will be worth my effort.  I'll have to brush
up on CVS, I have experience with ClearCase and RCS but not CVS.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dave Peticolas [SMTP:dave@krondo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:48 PM
> To:	mikep@crt.com
> Cc:	gnucash-devel@lists.gnumatic.com
> Subject:	Re: Reconciliation RFE 
> 
>  writes:
> > I manage my checking account in a similiar fashion as the "envelope"
> system.
> > For those of you who aren't familiar with the 'envelope' system  of
> > budgeting you use envelopes label for different budget catergories and
> put
> > the budgeted amount into the envelope and then only spend what is in the
> > envelope.  I use 4 bank registers instead.  One is for deposits, another
> is
> > my wife's, one is mine and another is for long term items such as
> > infrequently paid bills (ie. property tax, etc).  Each pay check goes
> into
> > the deposits register and then I disperse from it to they other three
> based
> > on the amount budgeted for each area.  
> > 
> > I thought I could handle this basicly the same way using GnuCash by
> creating
> > a Checking Account and then creating subaccounts for my 4 areas.
> > Technically, this is possible but when it comes to reconciling it does
> not
> > work and would be nearly impossible to do.  
> > 
> > My request for enhancement is for the ability to include subaccounts in
> the
> > reconciling process of a parent account.  Would this be possible?  Would
> it
> > make sense to have this ability?  How difficult would it be?  I may
> consider
> > attempting to implement this as it would make my life much easier in
> this
> > regard.  I maintain the checking account and I find myself double
> entering
> > the info, first into the register and then into GnuCash.  If this
> > functionality could be implemented I would reduce it greatly because I
> would
> > be able to track it in GnuCash and not have to maintain the paper
> version.
> 
> I think that would be possible and that it's a really good idea.
> Off the top of my head, I don't think it would be too hard to
> implement this either. Are you interested in working on this?
> As a new feature, it would need to go into the development
> version, so you would need to check out the CVS version of
> GnuCash.
> 
> thanks,
> dave