Budgeting prototype

Reinke Bonte reinke.bonte at web.de
Wed Sep 3 17:29:09 CDT 2003


On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:25:11 -0700
Derek Neighbors <derek at gnue.org> wrote:

> I guess doing government accounting for the last 5 years has me jaded,
> but I can't for the life of me see why people are wanting "virtual"
> budget accounts.  This makes no sense.  You shouldn't be able to
> budget to a category in which you can't post actuals.  True often you
> budget at some roll up higher than where you spend, but why budget for
> somewhere you can't spend.   Maintaining a second set of categories
> seems silly.  I can see it during enterprise planning and analytics,
> but I think that sort of thinig is well outside of the scope of
> GNUCash and more suited for OLAP type technology where drivers can be
> reasonable applied.

I would think that "Virtual" accounts (or how ever we call them) make
sense whenever you have reporting duties, but happen to plan your life
or business according to different rules. Not only large enterprises
have this problem.

My 2 cents


Reinke


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