Some ideas concerning budgeting

krishan kharagjitsing sa_marchiert at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 21 09:58:22 EDT 2008


Hi derek, thanks for your response.

> > - View monthly averages for income and expenses
> 
> Something like the Income and Expense Chart?

yeah, but a textual representation would be nice too. I know you can make custom reports, but it looks very difficult to me.

I have been playing a lot with the software lately, and i think the main problem for personal use is the lack of useful reports and good budgeting features.
The budget report should show differences and totals, and a budget flow report would also be nice.

Also when you are entering amounts in the budget, you cannot see how much you have budgeted for a period, so you have to use a calculator while making a budget. A simple solution would be to see income & expense totals + difference while entering values in the budget window.

Another report I was thinking about is a graphical representation (XY scatter) of the account summary: 
the date versus balance. 

What would be cooler if you can make add a trendline and predict when your balance hits a certain value.
Now this goes a bit far, and I do this now in open office calc,  but it is a bit of a cumbersome process. So that brings me to an other idea:

Direct export to .ods (open document spreadsheet), so ppl can easily manipulate reports. 

These are a lot of ideas, i know, but imho it would greatly improve its use for personal accounting.

-krishan

> To: sa_marchiert at hotmail.com
> CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Some ideas concerning budgeting
> From: warlord at MIT.EDU
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:57:04 -0400
> 
> krishan kharagjitsing <sa_marchiert at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi, i just tried gnucash out and i really liked it, but i have some ideas for improvement. They may have been mentioned before however.
> >
> > - when importing bank statements, a 'smart' auto-detect for the transfer account.
> 
> The importers already remember your previous mappings and try to
> re-use them.  How this happens varies based on the importer you
> use and your preference settings (e.g. Bayesian Matching for OFX).
> 
> > - View monthly averages for income and expenses
> 
> Something like the Income and Expense Chart?
> 
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> 
> -derek
> 
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list