Hi, To follow up on this bug, let me explain what I am trying to achieve:
In recognition that some expenses are periodic, unpredictable, but budgetable
I specify a single month budget value in December, and when I incur those
expenses more a matching amount from the budget in December to the month where
the actual expense occurred. For example:
Initially I have
Budget:
ZAR2000 December
Then, I have some expenses:
Expenses:
ZAR500 March
I then change my budget to:
Budget:
ZAR500 March
ZAR1500 December
To have the above automated would be great.
However, the bug report I filed was relating to this, except I recognise that
some expenses are too important to have a "soft" allocation, that they need a
"hard" allocation. I do this by creating a liability - a reserve account - to
recognise that some the assets I have are actually for unpaid (un-incurred)
expenses. This is similar in concept to an insurance reserve. Every month I
have an expense coming off the liability (increasing it) and when actual
expenses occur I have an offsetting entry decreasing the reserve.
This way, my income and expense statement and my budget remains stable despite
some erratic expenses.
The one technically wrong aspect about how I have KMyMoney handling the above
is that the reserve liability accounts are in fact equity and not liabilities.
To be most correct I should move these accounts to under equity.
I do recognise the above is more of a corporate approach to personal finance
than what most people will handle their accounts so I ask here for some
comments, and if the above is deemed beyond the scope of KMyMoney I'll close
my bug :-).
(Also, it would be great if the above could be automated. Does KMyMoney have
a plug-in interface that could handle the above?)
Regards,
David
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