On 1 Oct, Daniel Hagerty wrote: > > credit card? That is *completely* wrong. You paid for > > those items when you bought them on your credit card, > > and simultaneously borrowed money to do so, and the > > budgeting system should reflect that. > > Agreed. That said, there *is* useful information available in > knowing how good a job you do of moving expenses into credit (e.g. "how > much float have I earned by avoiding paying cash for my bills?").
I'm inclined to agree with Derek Atkins, who said: > I think part of the problem in this discussion is that people are > coming from completely different angles and the nomenclature is > extremely confusing. Maybe what we should really be talking about is the *function* of a budgeting subsystem. In my mind, the purpose of a budget is to tell me how much money I have left to spend in a given period on a given type of item. That's what I want the budget to do. I'm not interested in a budget that calculates interest on float, calculates finance charge interest on purchases, tells me which account to put my savings in, or any of that. I want to know if, given the constraints that *I* have set, I can afford to buy a DVD player this month without adversely affecting my ability to pay rent, buy groceries, etc. I'm not suggesting that all those other features are boring and useless - far from it! Some of those calculations are *extremely* interesting to me (especially the interest on float one). It's just that I don't think those features belong in the budgeting subsystem. What do the rest of you think? Why does a casual user use a budget? Why does a business user use a budget? Have fun, Nato _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
