Forecasting and "what-ifs for GNUcash [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Wagner, David" <David.Wagner at humanservices.gov.au> writes:

> Subject: Forecasting and "what-ifs for GNUcash [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Date: Thu 25 July 13, 23:13:55
> From: Wagner, David <David.Wagner at humanservices.gov.au>
> To: Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
>
> Hi Maf,
>
> I used to be a Cobol DB2 programmer and last night I was thinking about this
> challenge and had the following thought.
>
> Once the data is entered into the database it would be there to extract and
> manipulate.
> GNUcash already provides an interface for data entry of what is required.
>
> On the surface it seems what is needed in a specification is:
>
> 1) SQL to extract the data
> 2) Code for manipulation of the data
> 3) A what if interface introduced into GNUcash
> 4) Creation of a series of reports to support
>
>
> Note: I am saying this very gently as it will require work, but I am prepared
> to give it a go.
> It will be slow and I will have to learn some things but it would be a good
> feature to have.
>
> any thoughts, hope all is well?

I would suggest that you might be better off using the existing report
infrastructure (in Scheme) to write this.  This gives you #1 and #2
already.  So all you need to implement is #3 and #4, and indeed I would
posit that most of #4 is already written, too, in the form of existing
reports.

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-derek

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