Feature request

[John Lawrence-2]

KMyMoney Developers,

As I was using the 9.2 version, I thought of a few things that would make kmymoney better. 
  1. - A way to disable accounts.  This is for when you have a credit card and wish to close it, or you switch banks and need to close the old accounts.  Deleting them isn't possible because transactions still are routed through that account, but the account shouldn't accept any more transactions occurring.
  2. - A way to add liability payments to the budget.  While it is nice to be able to budget in kMyMoney, it is key to a budget to be able to show payments to liability accounts, as that can be a large chunk of where your money is going every month, an especially large chunk if there is a mortgage payment involved.
  3, - Allow percentage of income budgeting.  Some taxes are percentage based, and it would be nice to be able to say that this expense category will be x% of the monthly income, or even that it will be x% of the selected income categories for the month.

John Lawrence

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[Thomas Baumgart]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 07:49:56 John Lawrence wrote:
> KMyMoney Developers,
>
> As I was using the 9.2 version, I thought of a few things that would make
> kmymoney better.
>   1. - A way to disable accounts.  This is for when you have a credit card
> and wish to close it, or you switch banks and need to close the old
> accounts.  Deleting them isn't possible because transactions still are
> routed through that account, but the account shouldn't accept any more
> transactions occurring.

Simply use 'Account/Close account'. It's all in place.

>   2. - A way to add liability payments to the budget.  While it is nice to
> be able to budget in kMyMoney, it is key to a budget to be able to show
> payments to liability accounts, as that can be a large chunk of where your
> money is going every month, an especially large chunk if there is a
> mortgage payment involved.

We are working on that part.

>   3, - Allow percentage of income budgeting.  Some taxes are percentage
> based, and it would be nice to be able to say that this expense category
> will be x% of the monthly income, or even that it will be x% of the
> selected income categories for the month.

So basically tie the budget of one category to another one based on a formula,
if I explain this in a more abstract/generalized way. That's probably a good
idea. Maybe, a start would actually be a simple factor.

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[Eric A. Bonney]

Hey John:

You actually can close accounts already. Goto the accounts page and right click on the account on question and select close account. I believe that the account must have a zero balance before it can be closed though.

I would second the idea of adding liability payments to the budget, or if that doesn't work what about a simplistic cash flow statement?

I would love to help out with project with coding in my spare time but I do have some questions about getting started. Would anyone be willing/have the time some night/day to chat via irc or instant messenger?

-Eric

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Sent: 10/1/08, 1:49:56
Subject: [Kmymoney2-developer] Feature request

KMyMoney Developers,

As I was using the 9.2 version, I thought of a few things that would make kmymoney better. 
  1. - A way to disable accounts.  This is for when you have a credit card and wish to close it, or you switch banks and need to close the old accounts.  Deleting them isn't possible because transactions still are routed through that account, but the account shouldn't accept any more transactions occurring.
  2. - A way to add liability payments to the budget.  While it is nice to be able to budget in kMyMoney, it is key to a budget to be able to show payments to liability accounts, as that can be a large chunk of where your money is going every month, an especially large chunk if there is a mortgage payment involved.
  3, - Allow percentage of income budgeting.  Some taxes are percentage based, and it would be nice to be able to say that this expense category will be x% of the monthly income, or even that it will be x% of the selected income categories for the month.

John Lawrence

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[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hello Eric,

I would second the idea of adding liability payments to the budget, or if that doesn't work what about a simplistic cash flow statement?

We are working on that too. You must have probably seen the mails going back and forth about "Where does my money go to?" report.

I would love to help out with project with coding in my spare time but I do have some questions about getting started. Would anyone be willing/have the time some night/day to chat via irc or instant messenger?

If you have msn or gtalk, you can contact me. send me your nick to my mail and I will add you.

Regards,
Alvaro

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[Thomas Baumgart]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 14:05:38 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:

> Hello Eric,
>
> I would second the idea of adding liability payments to the budget, or if
>
> > that doesn't work what about a simplistic cash flow statement?
>
> We are working on that too. You must have probably seen the mails going
> back and forth about "Where does my money go to?" report.
>
> > I would love to help out with project with coding in my spare time but I
> > do have some questions about getting started. Would anyone be
> > willing/have the time some night/day to chat via irc or instant
> > messenger?
>
> If you have msn or gtalk, you can contact me. send me your nick to my mail
> and I will add you.

Just a quick note: I should be around on #kmymoney on freenode from 19:00 UTC
(that's 21:00 MESZ or 15:00 GST) for about one hour. So this will start soon
(20 minutes).  If you have questions, go for it.

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