interesting feature suggestions (was: GnuCash vs. Quicken)

[Roland Roberts]

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>>>>> "David" == David Hampton <hampton@employees.org> writes:

    David> On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 00:01, Shayne Lennox wrote:

    >> There might be something I'm not considering, but I'm thinking
    >> this would be one of the less difficult things to
    >> implement. Cash accounts would have a simple "balance
    >> adjustment" instead of a full "reconcile" feature. This idea is
    >> actually pinched from Quicken. You just enter the real amount
    >> after counting your pennies, select an account in the dialog
    >> (e.g.  "Expenses:Misc", which the balance adjustment dialog
    >> would then default to) and an adjustment transaction is
    >> entered.

    David> This is a reasonable request.  I do this manually all the
    David> time for my Cash In Hand account.  File a Request For
    David> Enhancement in buzgilla. I'm sure it will get assigned to
    David> me, it always seems to :-), and I'll take care of it.

FWIW, Quicken's behavior is to clear the transactions as if you had
gone through a reconcile step.  I, too, periodically add a "Balance
Adjustment" entry, but I'm also anal about going back and reconciling
the account just so all those little checkboxes are checked off....

roland
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