Is saving goals possible?

[Brian Dolbec]

On Thu, 2006-23-11 at 12:04 -0500, Alan Hartless wrote:
> Is there a feature in gnucash for saving goals?  For example, I have a
> savings account with one lump sum of money.  But I want to be able to
> separate that sum into goals.  Let's say I have two thousand dollars in
> my savings account.  I want a way to be able to look and see that I have
> 300 towards a laptop, 700 towards summer cash, and 1000 towards
> emergency cash.
> 
> I thought that maybe I could use gnucash's double entry to do this.  But
> can't get it to work the way I want.  Here is a "concept map" for what
> needs to happen separated by transactions.
> 
> 1) My work direct deposits my paycheck into my checking account.
> 2) I transfer a sum of money into my savings account.
> 3) Now I somehow need to divide up the savings into "goals," "accounts,"
> whatever but still keep the transactions and total amounts intact in my
> savings account for reconciliation purposes.
> 
> Does this make any sense at all?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Alan
> 

create sub-accounts in your savings account for the breakdown.  Your
main savings account will total the balances of your sub-accounts.

-- 
Brian Dolbec <brian_dolbec at telus.net>