budgeting?

[Derek Atkins]

Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:11, James Richardson wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to move from quicken to gnucash. The only thing i
>> find lacking is no support for budgeting, or at least none I can find. A
>> google search turned a few ideas from a few years ago, but AFAIK they
>> have not been implemented.
>
> FWIW, I noticed http://www.abisource.com/~msevior/ [myBudget 0.5]
> announced on FootNotes, this morning.
>
> Not that anyone should ever store finiancial data in anything other than
> GnuCash, of course! ;)  But it is going to be a while yet before GnuCash
> supports budgeting directly...

unless, of course, someone wants to step up and implement budgetting
for gnucash and submit the patches... (hint hint).  C/Gtk is all
that's needed.  Scheme is needed only if you want to implement "budget
reports."

> A good intermediate step would be import/export between gnucash and
> MyBudget...

-derek

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