Re: Possible improvement to budgets using budget rules

2009-08-17 Thread Tim Abell
Hi Bryce, Yes, that's pretty much it, though it's as much for day to day <£100 decisions as for larger purchases. I plan to schedule everything I that I know the amounts and dates for (eg yearly car insurance and monthly rent/mortgage, income), and use the budget system for planning what I ex

Re: Possible improvement to budgets using budget rules

2009-08-15 Thread Bryce Poole
Tim, So if I understand you correctly you want the application to help you determine if you what your finances would look like if you decided to make a large extended purchase. To answer this you are looking at your scheduled transactions to anticipate future expenses. This coupled with the past

Re: Possible improvement to budgets using budget rules

2009-08-13 Thread Phil Longstaff
Currently, the libdbi library is used to provide SQL access. However, the library is abstracted out, so it would be possible to access the data through a different library. There is a core set of tables for the core objects. The business modules add another set of tables for the business obje

Re: Possible improvement to budgets using budget rules

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Abell
Hello, I have similar ambitions though a slightly different take. Thought I'd drop you a quick line to let you know where I'm at and say hello! Like you I wish to be able to say yes/no to an optional expense based on all the available information about current and future finances, something