balance predicter

[Derek Atkins]

Jesus Hinojosa <jhr0771 at yahoo.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:18, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Jesus Hinojosa <jhr0771 at yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> > > There is an option in Moneydance and M$Money to get a graph with the
> > > future balance of an account based on the scheduled transactions.  Is
> > > this feature available in Gnucash ? where ? could I expect it in the
> > > future?
> > 
> > On what data does Moneydance base its prognostication?
> 
> I guess it is only taking the current balance of the account and
> applying all the scheduled and recorded ( in case there are transactions
> already recorded with a future date ) transactions for one account(
> checking, credit, etc). It displays a line for the next days, weeks or
> months of the balance for the account.
> 
> For recurring transactions it gets ( I guess )all the single events that
> will be generated for the period of the report and adds and subtracts
> the values.

That's what I thought.  Unfortunately, no, GnuCash's reports don't use
Scheduled Transactions, yet.

> > I suspect that what you want does not currently exist in Gnucash,
> > but there are a number of people who want the feature.  Unfortunately
> > I cannot give you a time frame on when to expect it to be implemented.
> > 
> > > Thanks
> > 
> > -derek

-derek

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