Adrien
Climbing learning curves is about the only thing I have energy for these
days. Thanks for pointing out these hills (mountains?). Some time
(hopefully soon) I'll start my exploration, in the meantime I'll be
using Bert Riding's suggestion - at least that slope is fairly shallow.
Take care
Eric
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On 29/05/2019 22:33, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Thanks Eric for the clarification,
I found that I got a better handle on the reports after I just played around
with them for a bit. Some options are laid out or described in a way that while
technically accurate, can be obtuse if not confusing.
To see what each option does, I just started fiddling and clicking the
???Apply??? button to learn what their effect was. Sometimes reading Help
manuals actually helps, but in this case, I learned more by doing.
To your specific purpose, you might want to take a look at the following:
Balance Forecast
Average Balance
Cash Flow Bar Chart
Income & Expense Line Chart
Each of these (as most reports) can be set for just a single account, so you
can see what is happening to it alone if desired.
Also, the Multi-column report would allow you to have 2 or more (and other)
reports all on one tab, which you could always keep open as a sort of
???dashboard??? if you will. One of these might be a Balance Forecast chart
just for the Checking Account. Note, that chart offers you the option of a
???reserve amount??? and a ???target amount??? as lines you can display to see
if you are projected to cross a danger zone.
Regards,
Adrien
On May 29, 2019, at 4:05 PM, Eric Coates <eric.coa...@sky.com> wrote:
Adrien (and any others sufficiently interested)
I'm assuming the question was meant for me (or is that just ego?):
It's a personal requirement in two senses (1) I make no use of the business features of
GnuCash and (2) it's because of that "fear of going into the red".
The first needs no comment.
The second, although now of less concern was, at one time, significant. To
simplify the real situation (almost to the point of triviality) we [see below]
have a current account (aka checking account) and a deposit account with
different banks. Transfers from the current account to the deposit account is
almost instantaneous, transfers in the opposite direction can take up to seven
days. Having all the upcoming payments from the current account already entered
allows for two situations:
(1) If there will be insufficient funds in the current account at some point it will
"flash red" and I will have time to arrange a covering transfer from deposit to
current.
(2) When our salaries/pensions are deposited (in the current account) I will be
able to see the expected month end balance and so, possibly, be able to
transfer cash to the deposit account (for its higher interest rate)
At the moment, in this low interest environment, the benefit of transferring to
the deposit account is, to a first and probably third approximation,
negligible. But I'm a man of habit!
I suppose what I'm doing is a form of budgeting.
I've never got into the reporting possibilities of GnuCash. To be frank - and
with no implied criticism - I have difficulty with interpreting the ones I've
glanced at. That may be because I use one set of books to keep track of my, my
wife's and our joint accounts so the shear number of sub-accounts can be a
little overpowering.
As an aside: I totally agree with your statement "the journey is part of the learning fun, even, or
especially if you take detours" - although I might be tempted to put the word "fun" in quotes,
"satisfaction" wouldn't need quotes.
Take care
Eric
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On 29/05/2019 20:58, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Out of curiosity, is this a personal requirement?
What is the end purpose?
If it is just to ???see??? what might transpire, the Future Scheduled
Transactions Summary report might be helpful. (as might the Budget module)
The reason I pose the above questions is I often find that the original
question of ???How do I do ???xyz??????? isn???t the actual desired answer
because the questioner is already in a rabbit hole.
The real question is, removing all intermediate steps, what is the desired end
result? What are you trying to accomplish? What is the end goal?
Usually, going back to that fundamental question will yield a clearer answer
and result in a more efficient process or workflow to accomplish the task. (of
course, the journey is part of the learning fun, even, or especially if you
take detours)
Regards,
Adrien
On May 29, 2019, at 2:40 PM, Eric Coates <eric.coa...@sky.com> wrote:
Hi
My requirement is that on the first of the month all transactions due before the last day of the month are
entered. My method does that but the one proposed by Bert Riding seems to be better. ("Seems" only
because I'll need to check it against my "boring scheme of work" at month end. Luckily we have one
of them coming up.) I knew of the "enter N days before due" technique but I assumed - wrongly -
that the number of days was fixed for all transactions. Just goes to show, intuitive interfaces can help but
reading the manual can really help.
Take care
Eric
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On 29/05/2019 15:27, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
On 5/29/19 2:16 AM, Eric Coates wrote:
Hi
1)?????????? How can you enter a scheduled transaction before it's due date?
(Used to check cash flow)
Adrien Monteleone has given one method, I use a different one.
Without going through my entire boring "scheme of works" for the last
day of the month I do want to enter all scheduled transactions for
thee following month (you call it "cash flow purposes", I call it
"fear of going into the red"). To do that I
(1) close GnuCash;
(2) set the system clock to a later date (in my case the last day of
the next month):
(3) open GnuCash, click the necessary buttons and check that all the
transactions have appeared (in my case in my current/checking account);
(4) close GnuCash;
(5) Reset the system date.
I use Ubuntu and I find sometimes (not very often) the change of date
doesn't "take", that is why the checking is necessary.
Different, not better
Best wishes
Eric
If you always want to see them 10-15 or even 30 days in advance, just
edit that transaction (Actions:Scheduled Transactions:Scheduled
Transactions Editor) and click the Create in Advance checkbox on the
Overview tab.?? Adjust the number of days as desired.
--Steve
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