The only mechanism that really exists to have "templated arbitrary formulas" is to use the periodic Scheduled Transactions. It would be nice to have them created ad-hoc (ie menu item Create Transaction from Template which pops up a list of available templates) instead of periodically...
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, 5:34 pm Simone Gaiarin, <simg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Rich. > > My main question is: is there a way to automate these calculations in > GNUCash or for each transaction I need to compute and input each component > of the income by hand? > I have read the GNUCash documentation but I was not able to figure out if > this is possible or not. > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 8:32 AM Simone Gaiarin <simg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I need help in setting up GnuCash to achieve the following goal: > > - Track my monthly net income (after taxes and pension fund contribution) > > > > Situation: > > I give a service that I invoice per hour and the cost paid by the > customer > > consists of the following components: > > > > x: Cash payment = y + p1 > > y: Service gross cost > > p1: 1st pension fund contribution = 0,02 * y > > > > On y I have to pay also: > > t1: tax I have to pay = 0,05 * y > > p2: 2nd pension fund contribution = 0,10 * (y - t1) > > > > Accounts: > > > > - Income > > > > - Bank Account > > > > - Tax > > - Pension fund > > > > Given that I pay out of my bank account the taxes twice a year and the > > contribution to the pension fund twice a year, the 'Income chart' report > > does not give me a clear view of my net income over the month. > > > > I tried to set up a tax table where I used some equivalent coefficients > in > > order to automatically assign t1 to Tax account and p1, p2 to the Pension > > fund account (rather difficult given that here the tax and pension fund > are > > computed in cascade), but I wonder if this is the correct strategy (the > > Pension fund account goes negative instead of positive for example). > > > > What is the correct way to proceed in order to obtain a monthly net > income > > chart considering the taxes and pension fund contribution percent over > each > > customer payment? > > > > Thanks > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
