> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Sled [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:20 AM > To: Neulinger, Nathan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Budgeting in GnuCash > > > 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.
Maybe if I get in the mindset to sit down long enough to figure out where to start. If someone more familiar with the code would be willing to build in the capability for some sort of "external" report type that would get the account xml data passed on stdin, and return the html report on stdout, I'd definately be willing to contribute some more reporting capabilities. > | 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. Every time I've tried to use them in the past, I've had more trouble than it was worth, and not enough time to sit down and figure out if it's something I'm doing screwy or whether it's something gnucash is doign weird. -- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
