That is an *excellent* tip! Care to add it to the wiki? Regards, John Ralls
> On Sep 25, 2021, at 7:06 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can achieve the ad-hoc nature of a templated transaction by setting the > frequency of the scheduled transaction to 'Once'. > > Set up your scheduled transaction, set the frequency to 'Once', run the > scheduled transactions/Since Last Run option, fill in the variables, then > proceed. > > The next time you want to run that specific template, edit the scheduled > transaction by changing the start date and running the scheduled > transaction process again. > > Robin > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 5:12 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.