Creating a budget

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 13 May 2009 08:28:06 +0200 schrieb David Stibbe:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm stelly pretty inexperienced in gnu-cash: I've been using it for
> about 2 months now. Although everything seems to work for me, I just
> can't seem to get the following done:
> 
> I have one savings account on which I set money aside on a monthly
> basis. This money is meant for later purchases. E.g. a new computer of
> about 1000 euros, for which I set aside 150 a month and a new tv of
> about 600 euros, for which I set aside 50 a month: I want to be able
> to track how much there has been saved for the computer and how much
> for the tv. (There are accounting terms for this, I know, but I have
> no idea which ones.)  I did follow some instructions in the manual
> about budgets but that didn't quite do what I wanted it to do. Does
> anyoine have a good suggestion on how to accomplish this?

http://allmybrain.com/2008/12/15/better-budgeting-with-gnucash/

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Ulrike Fischer