Budgeting in GnuCash

[Josh Sled]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:26:18AM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

| 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". 

Let alone "understanding" credit limits, ear-marked funds towards savings
goals ... there's plenty of things that a real budgeting subsystem would
like to do that aren't captured in this report and transcend a report,
generally.

In any case, a Cash Flow report is the closest thing that is written,
right now.

| 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... 

Well, as it'd expand it, I think you should. ;)

Scheme is an easy-to-learn, beautiful and powerful language.  Highly
suggested, and this is a good-sized project to pick it up on.

FWIW, if no one steps up to the budgeting subsystem in the next 9 months,
I was planning on writing it in scheme at that point.

| 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. 

Note that Scheduled Transactions can enter transactions into the books
in advance, if you configure it that way.

....jsled