On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:09:51 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Rob Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Nobody responded to the main point of my original message about the sense of
> the capital account nor expense accounts. Speaking from the perspective of
> the college accounting class I had, I'm pretty sure that (from a business
> point-of-view) I'm correct. From a home-user point of view, I may not be.
>
> I'm wondering if it would be good to have a configuration switch one could
> use to enable accounts to work the way a (at least my) business accounting
> book says they ought with the default being the way it is now.
I'll have to take a look at it. You might be right.
> On a similar note, for home use, one ought to be able to set up monthly
> deposits into their expense accounts (like a budget) which would take place
> however the periodic/timed transactions do. This is something at least
> older versions of quicken did. It's useful.
Rob Browning and I have both talked around some ways of implementing such
functionality; no disagreement but that this is useful; the question will
be
How to do it
and it may be a few days before that rattles around inside skulls well
enough to provide a clear direction for implementation methods.
Scheduled transactions *are* a very good idea. With a bit of skull
sweat, they may become a *truly powerful* feature. (I see glimmerings
of this providing functionality that Big, Expensive Systems don't have.)
It would be a shame to not think hard enough to ensure that they're
*truly powerful.* And given some powerful abstractions, building a
friendly front-end to support less-vastly-powerful use of it shouldn't
be too hard.
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