On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 13:27:22 +1200 Daniel Sheffield <d.j.yo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > Judging by this piece on the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Envelope_Budgeting_for_GnuCash your problem is not yet solved. You might want to add to that piece of writing. Liz _______________________________________________ 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.
