Budgeting in GnuCash

Neulinger, Nathan nneul at umr.edu
Mon Jan 27 10:26:18 CST 2003


The problem is that the cash flow report doesn't show you a transfer
from checking to a credit card for example. It can show you all your
income, and all your expenses, but not the "non-expense transfers". 

i.e. it'll show me that I spent $50 on a credit card for cd's, but it
won't tell me that I paid $100 on that credit card bill. 

As to the offer, I started to write one externally in perl, but haven't
done much yet. As for writing it in scheme, that would require learning
enough scheme to write in it and I'm not sure I would intentionally do
that to my brain... 

For the looking ahead part - I just enter transactions in advance if I
know what they are likely to be and mark them to indicate they are
pending. 

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:34 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Budgeting in GnuCash
> 
> 
> Nathan Neulinger <nneul at umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > Merely having a report suitable for budgetary use would be 
> a big step in
> > the right direction.
> 
> Is this an offer to write one?  ;-)
> 
> > Right now, there isn't any report (at least not that I am 
> aware of) that
> > can let you see where you money is going if it involves transfers
> > between accounts, such as a payment to a loan or credit card, or a
> > transfer to savings. 
> 
> There is the cash flow report, but it (indeed, NONE of the reports)
> look to the future to show you what is expected to happen in the
> future.
> 
> > -- Nathan
> 
> -derek
> 
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