Budgeting/pre-allocation procedure?

mvillarino mvillarino at dubmail.net
Thu Dec 16 12:58:13 EST 2004


O Mércores 15 Decembro 2004 17:26, Michael J. Barillier escribiu:
> I've seen various threads related to aspects of budgeting in Gnucash
> but haven't seen anything concrete that I could implement.  Basically,
> I'd like to set aside funds in my checking account for upcoming bills,
> either known or estimated, so that if my wife or I look at the account
> balance we see what's available to be spent, not the actual balance.
> The best solution I've come up with is to create a separate asset
> account and transfer whatever I expect to spend on upcoming bills into
> that holding account, and when I pay the bills from the checking
> account I transfer back into the checking account to cover what I've
> written.  I'm wondering if someone hasn't come up with a more elegant
> or ``correct'' (from an accounting perspective) method that wouldn't
> be a tremendous PITA to implement?
>
> Thanks -

I think you doing something like a provision, but in a slightly different way.



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