formulas or scripts for periodic savings
adrian15
adrian15 at raulete.net
Fri May 6 04:59:32 EDT 2005
Hello this is my first message to the list.
I've been using for 3 weeks gnucash with the double account mode in order
to control my personal money.
I have only a bank account but however I can't control my spents with only
one account.
To control my spents I supose I have 4 accounts in my bank:
Normal account: Normal spents and earnings.
Entertainment account: Music, Video, Going out the night, buying electronic
things, linux magazines.
Inversion account: Money spent in things that are quite worth but not
things as cars or so on.
Patrimony account: Cars, loans and savings.
My laws are the following:
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You cannot expend more than 10% that you earn in entertainment.
You cannot expend more than 20% that you earn in inversion.
When you finish the months if you have won something save it to your
patrimony.
So what happens every end of the month (28/29/30/31) ?
It happens that I sum all of earnings of the month (usually from my work).
Let's suppose the result is 400 E.
And then samba begins:
40 E goes from Normal account to Entertainment account.
80 E goes from Normal account to Inversion account.
Now I sum all of expenses of the month (included money that goes to
Entern... and to Inver...) (Ex: 220 E) and I make:
Benefits = Earnings - expenses of the month = 400 - 220 = 180
So samba continues:
180 E goes from Normal account to Patrimony account.
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Having three virtual accounts for your different expenses gives me many
problems but I'm going to expose you only one of the problems.
I want to automatise the last 180 E. That's it. I want to schedule a
function that puts (Earnings of the month - Expenses of the month) from
Normal account to Patrimony account.
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I've looked around the gnu online documentation and I haven't found
anything about scripts or functions in Gnucash... so is there any way of
doing what I'm looking for? Any work-around?
Any help is apreciated.
adrian15
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