Budgeting in GnuCash

[Nathan Neulinger]

Yep, until last night, it never actually occured to me to DE-select
accounts on the options page. As soon as I did that, the report started
doing exactly what I wanted it to.

That particular report options page is very non-intuitive, cause it's
sense is opposite to most of the other accounts.

-- Nathan

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:39, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Nathan discovered this on #gnucash last night.
> 
> One problem I see with the cash-flow report is that it includes A/R
> and A/P accounts as real asset/liability accounts.  It should probably
> not really do that, because the cash actually changes hands between
> A/R,A/P and Bank, not between A/R,A/P and Income/Expense.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Eric E Moore <e.e.moore at sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul at umr.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > I'm not real clear on what you're trying to accomplish here, since the
> > cash flow report will do, if not what you want, what I think you
> > want.  If you go into the accounts tab on the options dialog, you can
> > select just some accounts for the cash flow, rather than the default
> > (all asset/liability accounts).  If you go into that, and select just
> > the bank account, it'll tell you that $100 flowed from the bank
> > account to the credit card.  
> > 
> > It won't report the $50 for CD's, but a profit/loss report would.  If
> > you maintain positive cash flow, and positive profit, (well,
> > non-negative will do), you're operating inside your budget...
> > 
> > At least it more or less works for me :)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Eric E. Moore
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