Hi, I am considering to start using gnucash for personal accounting, after too much time spent on Excel!
I like the application a lot, and I really appreciate your efforts. There is a key feature missing in my opinion: the ability to set the an accounting date different from the payment date, for regular transactions (no invoices or complicate stuff, since I'm using it for personal use): for instance, if I pay the insurance on Dec 28, I would like it to appear in the reports and to be compared with budget for the next year; in short, I would like to manually provide a date for the accounting of an expense, thus overriding the transaction date. Even better, I may how the expense splits among (potentially multiple) accounting periods: for instance, the insurance may be spread flat over the year. I have found the following workarounds: 1. set the accounting date as the transaction date, and move the real transaction date to the description, or 2. make a set of transactions, like the following: on the payment date, I move money to a holding account, and then I register the expense from the holding account on the accounting date; in this scenario, though, I would like to keep track of the relation between these movements, but I can only use the description. Thanks for considering my suggestion! Gabriele _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
