Feature Request
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In Quicken there is the possiblitiy to tell the program that you would like to spent less money on a specific category. It would be nice GnuCash would give an alert if you spent "too much" for a specific category.
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Sort cash/bank journal entries in pages
That way you could have a nice overview of your transactions. E.g. You receive bankstatements per month. You could sort all entries for this month in one page. At the end of the month (or whenever you receive it) your bank statement and that page would be look-alikes, which makes it easy to reconcile (manually). I think it would also be handy for cash statements . One physical and one digital cash statement per day for example. I think it helps making auditing and doing double checks easier within less time. Don't you?
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Provide for deletion of bills and vendors
I understand this isn't trivial because of the transactional nature of gnucash and dependencies would have to be undone. I also realize it breaks auditability conventions. But I use Gnucash for personal use and I want accurate, clean records. Being human I make mistakes with creating vendors and bills all the time that I want to delete, not uncheck active and have garbage data lingering in my database forever.
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Use a separate window for transaction edits
Use a separate window for transaction edits that is visually different from the transaction register. It could have all the existing navigation shortcuts or not, but it should be designed to clarify the differences from the register view caused by the need for the 'extra' account to complete double entry information, which defaults, of course, to the current account. Since the default account could be shown in a separate box, it would not be in the way when a new split line is added. When splits are created, extra boxes or lines appear for the additional number, action, memo, amount…
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Have the option to print or save a summary of the reconcile.
After a monthly reconcile it would be very helpful to have a summary statement showing the date, transaction, amount, cleared balance and register balance with the date of the reconciled statement. In this manner, if there is a question about a previous transaction it can easily be resolved.
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Automate setup for reconciliation
As introduced in this thread: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2004-November/011977.html
I see no reason reconciliation cannot utilize the already existing code used for walking users through finding duplicates in QIF imports. Reconciliation is all about finding duplicates in order to identify lone transactions.
Having gnucash import a QIF, identify likely matches, then prompt the user whether to mark Reconciled is far faster and more efficient than the current system of my printing out my bank statement and manually checking off each transaction on paper switching back and forth to the gnucash reconciliation screen to click on the matching transaction.
And the code is already…
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Use tax lots to dump details for US Schedule D
It seems like this is already on the Gnucash developers' radar, but I thought I would add it here as well because it could be a very useful feature.
In the United States, we have to report capital gains on individual tax returns every year --- the gain is reported (and tax paid) when the asset is sold. The tax return includes the item, quantity, purchase price, and sales revenue. Since Gnucash is already tracking lots of identical items (e.g., stocks), it should be possible to gather enough information to automatically generate the information for this tax return -- which…
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Allow 0 decimal places in currency
Displaying amounts without the pennies/cents/kopeks sometimes makes sense.
Some currencies (e.g. Yen/Rupee/Zimbabwe $) have a pretty low value, so the 1/100ths of it aren't used in daily transactions.
Yet the preferences only allow 1-8 decimal places. Why 1-8?12 votes -
Bonds are quoted as %. Please add the possibility to divide the retrived quote by 100 on some bonds.
Many European Bonds have quotation base on 100 units (%). Yahooeurope for example offers price referred to single unit for stocks and price referred to 100 units for bonds. It would be nice if the price editor would have the possibility to divide the price retrived by Finance::Quote by 100 (or some other value). Finance Quote cannot do it because it operates on a source base (es Yahooeurope) and does not know if it is a bond or a stock.
Thank you for all your great work.6 votes -
Move Estimate settings (date and significant digits) to Budget Options and remember
Button Estimate open Window "Estimate Budget Values" and these settings (date and significant digits) move to Budget Options and remember values from first set up.
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Allocation of Sales Tax
For a transaction there should be an easy automated way to allocate the remaining imbalance (usually sales tax) to the other expenses proportionally. This was a feature in MS Money that I really liked.
Here is an example:
Expense:Food 20
Expense:Tools 10
Expense:Toys 5
Liability:CC Card 42
(imbalance) 7It would be nice to be able to double-click on the (imbalance) and gnucash would distribute automatically the $7 to each item in the debt column by its proportion to the total of the credit column.
Currently I’ve been typing in the equation manually as shown below. This gets annoying after…
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Clearing
Clearing
Clearing is more than just checking an account balance. It is another way of grouping
existing split bookings of different transactions. This is very similar to clear
invoices against payments; which would be covered by this more general approach as well.In gnucash two or more splits are grouped to one transaction.
That transaction has a timestamp when it has happened.
Clearing means to group splits of different transactions into a "clearing group".
This "clearing group" has no timestamp.
It just helps to find splits which are not yet "cleared".To achieve this, each split needs one additional column:
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improve scheduled transactions to support simple daily interest formulas
US Federal student loans are based on simple daily interest, calculated between payments. To properly split principal / interest, I need a variable representing days since last payment.
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Remember print settings
Each time I print an invoice, I need to reselect settings (date format, fields I want to show an hide, invoice style). I'd like to have those settings persistent.
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Create a unified tool for working with investments
Right now, buying or selling stocks or shares of a mutual fund is a terribly complex thing to do, requiring a split transaction. Furthermore, doing this with a 401k is even more difficult, if, say, I wanted to reallocate my investments.
I wish there were a tool to enter the necessary information (what I'm selling and for how much, and how I want to use the funds) and it would then create the transaction for me.
Even more than this, it is difficult to deal with a 401k that is only partially vested. I wish this were more easy to…
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Add an e-mail invoice button to the invoice screen, which opens with the default mail client
Add an e-mail invoice button to the invoice screen, which opens with the default mail client with the e-mail address of the customer filled in and the invoice attached.
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Design aging reports to include all payable accounts or all receivable accounts
Currently, aging reports default to only accounts payable or accounts receivable. This report should include all children accounts under AP for payable aging and all children accounts under AR for receivables aging.
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When starting GnuCash, allow selection of any recently opened accounts
Gnucash opens with the last opened set of accounts. If then a new instance of Gnucash is started, you get a dialog complaining about lock, and gives option to Open anyway, Create new file, or Quit. It should also give option to open another set of accounts.
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Tracking Liability Repayments as Expenses without Double Counting them
It would be great to have an expense report that could actually count transactions moved directly from assets to offset liabilities. I find it that i need to create an expense account, then zero it out in order not to double count it. I want to see all expenses, plus debt repayment expenses that go directly from assets into liabilities in one report.
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