Budgeting?

[The Doctor What]

* Robert C. Ramsdell III (rcriii at ramsdells.net) [030211 08:30]:
> You want to make a distinction between the parent account, and the 
> parent+child accounts.  To me such a distinction is meaningless, as I 
> follow a simple rule that parent accounts never carry balances.  At most 
> they are 'clearinghouse' accounts, in which credits _always_ have 
> corresponding debits. 
> 
> Thus to me the 'balance' in a parent account always represents the sum of 
> the balances in the child accounts. 

This is generally true in my case as well, with maybe one or two
exceptions.  But the interface is optimized to the opposite; the
assumption that all accounts have balances.

Ideally, someone could do one or the other flexibly.  I liked the
MacOSX idea that someone mentioned.

Ciao!

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