I've seen several threads over the years that a user wanted to make an
SX based on the current account balance. I'm glad to see the code
exists, and hope to see it finally included.
I'll make my way through that PR discussion and chime in once I have a
grasp of the nuances, but for now, I'd say this will also be very useful
for envelope budgeting. This was my first hangup trying to implement it.
I've also seen a use case of someone calculating their charitable
donations based on the balance of some accounts at a certain point in
time, so grabbing that automatically would be nice.
This might turn out to be 'build it and they will come' sort of code.
People may find uses for it that aren't anticipated yet.
Regards,
Adrien
On 9/16/20 12:08 PM, Jean Laroche wrote:
Note that there is a pull request that adds the ability to use the
current balance of an account in a scheduled transaction.
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/682
This allows setting up a scheduled transaction for your mortgage payment
that's smart enough to compute the interest owned based on the current
balance of the mortgage account. So for example, if you make an extra
payment, the scheduled transactions created by the current "Mortgage &
Loan Repayment Assistant" will all be off. But if you setup your
schedule transaction to use the current balance to compute the interest
owned, the correct interest will be calculated no matter your
prepayments etc.
That pull request has been sitting on the list since April, as the
powers that be don't seem to think it's a priority or even a good idea
to merge it into maint or master. Check it out, and voice your interest
if you think that would be useful to you.
Jean
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