What is the Future Scheduled Transactions Summary report supposed to do? It looks like it might work, but it seems to be cluttered with a lot of strange values with too many decimal places and/or fractions with large denominators.
David C On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:31 PM, R. Victor Klassen <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I think the original poster is looking at how to forecast cash flow. > Given the credit cards have different due dates, and assuming they are paid > on their due date, does the account from which they are paid have enough in > it for the coming month? > > This is relatively easy once the billing date is past: just enter the > transactions with future dates, and you can tell at a glance whether the > account from which they are paid will go into the red. This is relatively > manual, and I can think of no report that would give me that projection at > a random date before the billing dates have all (three) passed (and before > any of their payment dates - which may not include any dates). > > The report, if it did exist, would have to project the balance of the > paying account based on knowledge of the due dates, and the assumption that > no further charges will be made to the credit cards until their billing > dates. > > The closest I can come (and I use this method) is to enter phantom > transactions into the main current account with names like “deposit > placeholder” and “xxx credit card placeholder” at the appropriate dates in > the future, and then correct them as I know the amounts, changing their > names so I know they are no longer merely estimates. This also works for > mortgage and utility payments, - the mortgage payment I know the amount, > but not the split, since the vaguaries of interest calculation mean my > calculation never exactly matches the calculation used by the bank - and > pretty much any foreseeable income or expense. > > > > On Sep 24, 2017, at 7:51 PM, DaveC49 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The Tutorial and Concepts Guide covers the setup for credit cards in > detail > > (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_cc.html). > You > > need to create a Liability account as per these instructions for each > credit > > card. There is no specific tool for handling credit cards as such. You > > enter the transactions for purchases (as shown in the guide) when you > make > > purchases and the transactions for payments (also as shown in the guide) > > when you make the payments for each credit card. > > > > If your bill is due on the same date each month, you could also use the > > scheduled payments feature > > See the Gnucash Help Manual section 6.12 for details > > (https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=help) > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > ----- > > David Cousens > > -- > > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User- > f1415819.html > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
