Hi Devs,
I've switched to using gnucash from Quicken, and so far I'm very happy.
One thing that's not optimal with Gnucash is how mortgage payments are
handled as scheduled transactions.
From what I see, you can do one of two things:
1) Use the action/Scheduled transactions/Mortgage and Loan repayment:
this in the end will automatically enter a series of scheduled
transactions to accurately split your monthly payment between principal
and interest. That's great, except if you do additional payments (as I do)
2) Use the action/Scheduled transactions/Editor and enter a scheduled
transaction using a formula as provided in fin.scm (which you can edit,
if you need to add your own formula). This is also great as I could use
that to compute the right amount based on how much I overpay each month.
But what if I don't make any additional payment a given month.
The simplest way to achieve what I'm trying to do would be to use 2) and
compute the interests *based on the current principal*. This would be
possible if the functions in fin.scm were able to have access to account
balances (so the interest could be computed accurately)
From the examples, I don't see that that's possible, but perhaps you
guys know of a way?
Is this a feature people would be interested in? Or is it too narrow in
scope?
Jean
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