Advice for setting up house budget with roommates

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT) harry_seldon <harry.seldon.f at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thx, what is the "SX system" ?

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> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > harry_seldon <harry.seldon.f at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> OK, I see the autofill. However if the amount is not exactly the same
> >> (phone
> >> bill for instance) the computations must be redone. 
> >> It is also possible to simply duplicate a transaction. 
> > 
> > True.
> > 
> >> But for my purpose, I would have preferred a sort of macro. Indeed I am
> >> not
> >> manually writing the lines. I simply download them from my online
> >> banking.
> >> What I would like is to have some rules to apply to a transaction
> >> according
> >> to its name. 
> >> For instance when the new line rent is detected in the checking account,
> >> the
> >> rules would credit the expense account and debit the other housemates'
> >> accounts of their parts.
> > 
> > Well, your other option is to use the SX system.  You can input
> > a fomula with a variable and then when you instantiate the SX you
> > can plug in the actual value and it will compute the rest of the
> > transaction for you.
> > 
> >> It seems that I am getting a little demanding.
> >> Anyway from what I have seen, gnucash is already a great open source
> >> software.
> > 
> >> H 
> > 
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> > -derek
> > 
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