1 * GNUCash Budgeting

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     3 ** Definition

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     5 This tool should allow to:

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     7 - Budget your future expenses and incomes.

     8   - Report your budget from months to months.

     9   - Create recurring budget transaction.

    10   - Create morgage/investment prediction.

    11 - Import your current transactions journal and show how it get over/under your budget.

    12 - Allow you to adjust your budget accordingly.

    13   - That should also be reflected on recurring transactions.

    14 - Allow to create alternate scenario based on present budget.

    15 - For every expenses, there must be a budget liabilities.

    16 - For every income, there must be a budget asset.

    17 - Since Equity = Asset - Liabilities, all budget transaction must also balance.

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    19 ** Workflow

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    21 *** New incomes are split into budget envelops

    22 **** Manually created transaction

    23 **** Importing from QIF/QFX/CSV

    24 **** Recurring transaction

    25 *** New expenses are split into budget envelops

    26 **** Manual

    27 **** Importing

    28 **** Recurring

    29 ***** Simple

    30 ***** Recurring with a budget

    31 *** Reporting

    32 *** Exporting