On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:26:18AM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan wrote: | The problem is that the cash flow report doesn't show you a transfer | from checking to a credit card for example. It can show you all your | income, and all your expenses, but not the "non-expense transfers".
Let alone "understanding" credit limits, ear-marked funds towards savings goals ... there's plenty of things that a real budgeting subsystem would like to do that aren't captured in this report and transcend a report, generally. In any case, a Cash Flow report is the closest thing that is written, right now. | As to the offer, I started to write one externally in perl, but haven't | done much yet. As for writing it in scheme, that would require learning | enough scheme to write in it and I'm not sure I would intentionally do | that to my brain... Well, as it'd expand it, I think you should. ;) Scheme is an easy-to-learn, beautiful and powerful language. Highly suggested, and this is a good-sized project to pick it up on. FWIW, if no one steps up to the budgeting subsystem in the next 9 months, I was planning on writing it in scheme at that point. | For the looking ahead part - I just enter transactions in advance if I | know what they are likely to be and mark them to indicate they are | pending. Note that Scheduled Transactions can enter transactions into the books in advance, if you configure it that way. ....jsled _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
