On Sun, 07 May 2000, Ben Stanley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read some time ago on this list that somebody had:
>
> 1. Written code to handle budgeting
> 2. Was starting on coding a GUI for the budgeting
> 3. Was asking who would use it if it was done.
I did/am doing #1 and #3. Because I was whining about #2, Dave Peticolas has
started this.
>
> I want to ask:
>
> 1. What was the final consensus on how to do budgeting?
> ie through savings goals sub-accounts or what? (I lost track of
> what was going on in that wild and heated discussion...)
Budgeting is set up as a report. You will be enter your budget through a GUI.
Each budget line consists of two parts:
- what is essentially a query into the ledger. (usually this is just an
account name)
- one or more budget entries ($x per month, $y per year) etc.
Each entry can cover an arbitrary period.
There are three types of entries: regular bills, recurring expenses and
contingencies.
> 2. What is the current state of progress?
the todo list looks like:
;; TODO
;; "upcoming/overdue bills" report
;; GUI to enter budget
;; save/load budget
;; internationalization
;; speedup: move subexpressions outside loops
;; don't calculate values that aren't needed
;; graph budget progress
;; save report parameters - "favorite" reports
;; "unbudgeted" report
;; deal with non-integer periods (only if people ask for it. I don't
;; think it's necessary and don't want to do it)
Right now I'm changing the budget structures slightly to accomodate Dave's GUI.
Bryan
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