On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:23:48 pm Peter McAlpine wrote: > Hello, > > I have found GnuCash to be a very useful tool for tracking my > personal finances (THANK YOU!), but as others have brought up > previously (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Budgets) there has > historically been mixed success implementing a budgeting feature. > > I should be clear right now that it's not my intention to attack the > work that has gone into the budgeting features that exist in GnuCash > now, nor do I want to start a large thread about long term plans for > budgets in GnuCash. I have experimented with the recently added > budgeting feature and am unable to have it meet my personal needs. > After some thought I came up with an idea for a feature which would > present me with the information I need in a way that I (as a > accounting novice) can easily understand. I have started working on > this feature already but was encouraged by Josh to post to the -devel > list before I get too far (and thus this email). > > My proposal is merely this: to add an "SX Projection Report" > Input: > Any subset of a SX's > Any subset of accounts > A starting date (present time or earlier) > A finish date (any time after the starting date) > > Output: > A [read-only] report (formatted similarly to the register) which > would show what the selected account(s) would look like if the > selected SX(s) were applied to them from the start date to the finish. > > Example Usage Scenario: > The user wants to see if she can afford a new car that has payments > of $500/month, the user will input their regular SX's and add one > more [disabled (see below)] SX for the $500/month car payments. The > user could then generate the SX Projection Report and see the impact > on her accounts out to some arbitrary date. > > It's my hope that this feature would meet mine (and hopefully > other's) budgeting needs in a way that would not commit GnuCash > development to any particular budgeting philosophy or development > track. If users aren't interested in the way the report does > budgeting they can easily just ignore the report altogether. > > In order to get up to speed on the GnuCash source, I have taken the > time to implement (the diff is attached) a feature which would be > helpful when using this report: the ability to disable/enable SX's. > > Motivation: > I need to input SX's to select when I run SX Projection Reports, but > I may not actually want these SX's to show up on the SLR dialog yet. > > Implementation: > I have added an "Enabled" checkbox to the SX Editor dialog (all SX's > default to being enabled). If the SX is disabled it does not get > picked up when the SLR runs. The disabled SX's are (will be) > available when selecting SX's for SX Projection Reports. > > I look forward to hearing your feedback regarding the patch and > feature proposal. >
Sounds interesting. But what about SX's that have variables? How would those be handled by the report? Regards, Tim -- Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux), Linux 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 23:10:01 up 15:50, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.19, 0.26 MP3/OGG archive Total playlength : 9 days, 11 hours, 29 mins 56 seconds "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden
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