Budgeting in GnuCash

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Have it not include anything other than Asset accounts by default. That
will at least yield a more sensible default cash-flow report.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Thoma [mailto:tma at iis.fhg.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 6:45 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org; Eric E Moore
> Subject: Re: Budgeting in GnuCash
> 
> 
> 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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> > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
> > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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