Future transactions in account totals
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 4 04:53:54 CST 2004
Hi,
Michael Kjorling <michael at kjorling.com> writes:
> Now, I also added a future transaction, a deposit to one of my accounts that
> will take place on the 25th. I cannot use the scheduled transaction feature
> for this because I do not know the amount until about three weeks before it,
> and it changes from time to time (payment for per-hour contract work). Adding
> the transaction did not present a problem, but this future deposit is
> included in the main window account total, which is clearly wrong as I see
> it. Opening the account shows the proper present balance, but this somewhat
> ruins the idea of having the account totals at a glance.
It's not wrong. The default balance column shows the "future balance".
If you want "present balance" then turn on the "present balance" option.
In the account-tree view, click on "options" and then select the display
columns that you want.
> Is there any way to make this configurable (I can see when having future
> transactions taken into account - pun not intended - in the total can be
> beneficial), or a simple source code patch I can apply to change this
> behavior?
Yep. It's already there.
> Many thanks in advance.
-derek
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