[Cialug] Finance Software

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Todd Walton wrote:

> Is there software to help me do this?  I tried Gnucash last year.  I
> got from January 1 all the way to October or so and kind of sputtered
> out.  I don't really need to track every financial transaction *after*
> the fact.  I want to know what's upcoming, and what my finances will
> be a week or two out  What do you do?


I do it with scheduled transactions in GnuCash -- if you schedule your  
recurring expenses and income it gives you information like "Projected  
Minimum", which I'm guessing is the kind of thing you want. Or if your  
transactions are not regular enough to schedule you can just enter  
things with future dates when you find out about them.

If you're not interested in tracking every expense you can just put in  
the big ones and add an "adjustment" entry every week or two to make  
up for all the small ones and bring you back in sync with external  
accounting (e.g. your bank). You won't be able to do item-by-item  
reconciliation, but it would let you track big transactions and make  
general predictions about future account values without taking quite  
so long.

--

The most recent major version (new since you've used it) also has a  
feature called "Budgets", which might be part of what you want:
http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/chapter15.html

	Zach

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