Hello David, Why don't you use a yearly budget for this case? I guess you've tried but for some reason didn't find it good enough.
Regards, Alvaro On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:14 AM, David Naylor <naylor.b.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > To follow up on this bug, let me explain what I am trying to achieve: > > In recognition that some expenses are periodic, unpredictable, but budgetable > I specify a single month budget value in December, and when I incur those > expenses more a matching amount from the budget in December to the month where > the actual expense occurred. For example: > > Initially I have > Budget: > ZAR2000 December > > Then, I have some expenses: > Expenses: > ZAR500 March > > I then change my budget to: > Budget: > ZAR500 March > ZAR1500 December > > To have the above automated would be great. > > However, the bug report I filed was relating to this, except I recognise that > some expenses are too important to have a "soft" allocation, that they need a > "hard" allocation. I do this by creating a liability - a reserve account - to > recognise that some the assets I have are actually for unpaid (un-incurred) > expenses. This is similar in concept to an insurance reserve. Every month I > have an expense coming off the liability (increasing it) and when actual > expenses occur I have an offsetting entry decreasing the reserve. > > This way, my income and expense statement and my budget remains stable despite > some erratic expenses. > > The one technically wrong aspect about how I have KMyMoney handling the above > is that the reserve liability accounts are in fact equity and not liabilities. > To be most correct I should move these accounts to under equity. > > I do recognise the above is more of a corporate approach to personal finance > than what most people will handle their accounts so I ask here for some > comments, and if the above is deemed beyond the scope of KMyMoney I'll close > my bug :-). > > (Also, it would be great if the above could be automated. Does KMyMoney have > a plug-in interface that could handle the above?) > > Regards, > > David > _______________________________________________ > KMyMoney-devel mailing list > KMyMoney-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel > _______________________________________________ KMyMoney-devel mailing list KMyMoney-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel
