Budgeting in GnuCash

[Herbert Thoma]

Nathan Neulinger schrieb:
> 
> 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.

Why is it non-intuitive? You select the accounts for which you want the
cash-flow information, i.e. the set of accounts for which you want to know
how much money is coming in and going out. For me this is perfectly
sensible. (OK, I wrote it, so this does not neccessarily mean anything ,-))

May be the default selection should be no accounts at all?

 Herbert.

> -- 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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