Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, 12:29:38 schrieb Graham Leggett: > Hi all, > > For a while now I have been capturing transactions up to a year ahead (as > opposed to being behind), entering the expected transaction value. When the > account is reconciled, the values become actual values. > > What this allows me to do is know what my bank account will look like in > three months time, taking into account things like the VAT return that > might be due in two months time, and I can get a clear indication of how > much money I really have to spend, as opposed to what my bank balance is > telling me on any given day. > > What I'd really like is a way to mark transactions as "draft" transactions, > perhaps lightly coloured in grey, but otherwise functionally identical to a > normal transaction. This would clearly distinguish them from actual > transactions that have actually happened. Perhaps in addition to have a > reconciliation flag of N, Y or C, there could be a D for draft, and some > quick way to toggle the transaction between N and D. You could then have > reporting options where draft transactions are included (ie show me my > projected income statement for this coming year), or specifically excluded > (ie show me actual transactions only). > > In theory, this would be a low tech, simple way to get a kind of budgeting > done. > > Thoughts on the idea?
I think this is a good idea. Adding another reconcile flag is indeed possible. I see the difficult part in getting all places that check the reconcile flag to recognize the new flag correctly. But apart from that, I think this shouldn't be too difficult. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
