Thanks Liz... With the full power of scheme (or python) it will be relatively straightforward to customise these calculations. There's an example script in the GitHub pull request, and it does interact via command line to input some transaction details, summarises the transaction and asks confirmation before committing the change.
It does require some knowledge of programming and learning the gnucash API, but won't require building the full gnucash code. Other ideas are possible: determine the balance of an account at a particular date, download transactional, business or pricing data from an external source or any format (json,TSV), submit anything to an external recipient, etc. Implementing such a change effectively raises the scheme code from being a report-only mechanism to unlocking full scripting, and also unlock python scripting to more users. On Fri, 13 Oct 2023, 5:52 am Liz, <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 17:51:40 +0800 > Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It would thus be useful to know the types of tasks that users wish to > > automate. I'll start: > > > > Every quarter, I personally tally up the GST account balances, which > > allows me to submit to the tax office. I currently use the "Income > > and GST Statement" report for tallying. I will also create some > > transactions which will offset the GST accounts back to zero. This > > could easily be automated. > > My GST is more complex > with two different vehicles, company tax and the income tax to be > reckoned as well. > Vehicles only have a proportion of the GST to be put in the > calculations. > > I attach my Scheduled transaction just for the amounts to be given to > the tax office. > There are also a series of scheduled transactions for the splits in the > GST for vehicle expenses. > > Liz > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
