budgeting

[Phillip Shelton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nigel_gnucash-devel@unos.net 
> Maybe what we should really be talking about is the *function* of a
> budgeting subsystem.
> 
> In my mind, the purpose of a budget is to tell me how much money I have
> left to spend in a given period on a given type of item. That's what I
> want the budget to do.

So long as the above is a proper subset of the below and the below does not
demand that you take notice of it, then both parties should be satisfied?

> I'm not interested in a budget that calculates interest on float,
> calculates finance charge interest on purchases, tells me which account
> to put my savings in, or any of that.

Defining your constraints so that the computer can read and deal with then
is going to be one of the harder first steps.

> I want to know if, given the
> constraints that *I* have set, I can afford to buy a DVD player this
> month without adversely affecting my ability to pay rent, buy 
> groceries,
> etc.