How to check upcoming tranactions by account

[Donald Allen]

On Jan 1, 2008 4:00 PM, Russell Gadd <rustleg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Donald
>
> Very good of you to give me all the details below. Actually I'm well
> advanced in getting Linux and Windows working side by side. I have XP,
> Ubuntu and Debian multibooted with common FAT32 partitions for data. I use
> BootitNG as a boot and partition manager which has the ability to image a
> partition - this has saved me countless problems when system experiments
> have gone wrong. Although this is a proprietary system really aimed at the
> Windows world I'll keep it going at least for some while.
>
> Still trying to decide on Debian v Ubuntu, probably choose the latter as
> some of the Debian (stable) packages are a bit outdated - especially Gnucash
> as this is pre the latest redesign of Scheduled Transactions.
>
> It's great to be able to run Gnucash in Windows for now (even if a little
> buggy?), as I am parallel running it with MS Money - have been doing so for
> some weeks now and all is fully reconciled. However have only just completed
> entering the scheduled transactions and have taken the decision to stop
> running MS Money now, but will continue working in Windows until I am
> completely satisfied with other aspects of Linux including backups. In the
> absence of other factors I prefer MS Money as a tool, but Gnucash is
> perfectly adequate for all my needs.
>
> Vista on the horizon has turned me off Windows. That and the increasing
> practice of the OS and the application software taking over control from the
> user whether he/she likes it or not. I'm making the move now in a controlled
> fashion, so that I can ditch Windows when I choose. MS Money was the only
> piece of software which really tied me to Windows - I have been using
> Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice for some time. With Money gone, I can
> gradually move over. The reason I say gradually is that I would describe
> myself as a power user of Windows, so there is a lot of nitty gritty to
> replace to be comfortable in another environment. And also there is life
> other than computing...

Ain't that the truth. Sounds like you don't need my advice -- you have
things well in hand yourself. Good luck with the transition!

/Don

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> Russell
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> On 01/01/2008, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 1, 2008 6:01 AM, Russell Gadd <rustleg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am converting from Ms Money to Gnucash and have set up all my historic
> > > records and entered scheduled transactions for my accounts. I have
> several
> > > bank accounts to track and need a way to look ahead at what money is due
> to
> > > come out of each account in the near future to ensure I am not
> overdrawn.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately the list at the top of the scheduled transactions editor
> > > doesn't show the amount or the account(s) involved in the transaction.
> Is
> > > there another way of viewing upcoming transactions by account? Maybe a
> > > report ? (but I haven't found it).
> > >
> > > Ideally the report would be in account order, within each account there
> > > would be a line showing an upcoming transaction and the resulting
> balance of
> > > the account after the transaction is made. The report would presumably
> need
> > > to have parameters determining the accounts to show and the date range.
> > >
> > > I had a brief look at custom reports but didn't manage to get the
> facility
> > > to work. This was in the sample report: "This is a sample GnuCash
> report.
> > > See the guile (scheme) source code in the scm/report directory for
> details
> > > on writing your own reports, or extending existing reports." - I'm using
> > > Windows XP (sigh, reason for going to Gnucash is to ditch Windows in due
> > > course) and can't find such a directory.
> >
> > Did you download the gnucash sources?
> >
> > You didn't ask for advice on ditching Windows, but I'll make a few
> > comments anyway, having helped others break the Windows habit (you've
> > made the first step to recovery: acknowledging that you've got a
> > problem :-) I'd suggest not going cold turkey, but instead squash your
> > Windows partition (after backing up the whole machine with something
> > like Acronis) with a tool like Partition Magic, to make space for
> > Linux. I run the Gentoo distribution myself, but if you aren't an
> > experienced Linux admin and/or don't care about the fine-grained level
> > of control Gentoo gives you, Ubuntu would be a much better choice
> > (very easy to install and excellent package management). There are
> > other good distributions as well and others will have different
> > opinions as to the best choice  -- this is a religious issue. Once the
> > installation is complete, you'll be able to boot either Windows or
> > Linux. It is not difficult to arrange for access from the Linux
> > environment to your Windows files, so you can copy to the Linux
> > filesystem as needed. If simultaneous access to Linux and Windows
> > would be advantageous, you can install VMware Server (free) and create
> > a Windows virtual machine in your Linux environment. You can arrange
> > for that virtual machine to see your Linux filesystem (using Samba). I
> > would suggest that any files you write in the Windows virtual machine
> > (other than perhaps applications you install) reside in the Linux
> > filesystem. If you are new at this (I don't know what you know), none
> > of this is detailed enough for you to actually do it -- I'm just
> > trying to give you a high-level sketch of what is possible.
> >
> > /Don
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Russell
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