Hi, I'm using gnucash to manage my personal finances. It's great for tracking my expenses and I can even forecast short-term (a few months) but schedule transactions in advance for big ticket items and other regular expenses (loan repayments). For other more irregular expenses, I use the budget tool.
BUT I'm trying to keep track of savings towards a goal, but without opening an actual account or making any real world transactions to achieve it. ie, I want to keep a tab of what money is available for a specific use and be able to see at a glance what the balance of each fund is. I have been using the budget tool to track how well I stick to it, but the budget is not necessarily precise down to the last cent so it seems inappropriate to use the budgeting tool to track an internal account. In essence, I would like to use a solution that would be robust enough that I could use it to track actual customer accounts if I were a business (assuming local laws would actually allow this sort of behaviour - keeping all the money in one pot so to speak). A concrete example would be good as I have tried various ways (including Trading Accounts) and they all seem to have some shortcomings. I can give example of what I've tried on request - I'm trying to keep this initial mail short. ps, I'm starting to think that GnuCash is not the right tool for this specific task, as double-entry accounting for this purpose is introducing more risk of errors (in my opinion) than single-entry accounting... but then again, I'm probably doing wrong. Cheers, Daniel S -- In the beginning Kibo created the Internet. Now the Internet was formless, and empty. Randomness was upon the face of computing, and the Spirit of ARPA moved upon the face of the computers. Then Kibo said, "Let there be data": and there was data. Kibo saw the data, and it was good, so Kibo divided the data from the randomness, and Kibo named the data Information, and the randomness Clueless. And the Information and the Clueless were the first Network. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
