[Kmymoney-devel] Limits Warning Problem

[Cristian Oneț]

Hi,

@Thomas: do you think the warning should consider today's balance or
consider all transactions (even future ones) entered in the ledger
(this is the current behaviour). If current behaviour is desired is it
OK to ignore scheduled transaction (like it is now) or they should
also be considered for the limits check?

Of course everyone on the list should feel free to chime in.

Regards,
Cristian

2015-10-02 17:28 GMT+03:00 Robert Blackwell <robertcblackwell at gmail.com>:
> Cristian,
>
> There appears to be two issues at play here. Post dated transactions and
> future transaction. Let's ignore future transactions for the moment and
> focus solely on post dated entries.
>
> I understand the term "today's balance" as being the actual balance of the
> account at this very moment in time. That being the case then no,  the
> balance on the date when the warning was issued has [b]not[/b] reached the
> early warning limit. The balance on the account is $5,500. The early warning
> is set at $5,500. Prior to entering the post dated credit card payment of
> $1,500 no warnings were given. After entering the post dated amount a
> warning appears. Without considering future transactions, why does the
> warning appear when the posted dated entry is made? "Today's Balance" is not
> below the value set for the early warning, its still $5,500.
>
> Considering future transactions, with such enabled I would expect the
> application to either consider "today's balance" or the future balance up to
> the point of the last postdated entry. In that way any future transactions
> between todays date and the date of the last post dated entry would be
> considered in the alert.
>
> I've prepared a little file that demonstrates the problem as I see it (I
> will send the file along to the address provided earlier). In it you'll see
> a checking account with an opening balance of $5,500. There's deposit of
> $3,500 scheduled for September 30th and a post dated transaction of $1,500
> scheduled for October 7th. Assuming todays date is September 28th, "today's
> balance" is $5,500. Prior to entering the post dated payment, there were no
> minimum balance alerts. After entering the post dated payment an alert was
> raised. If the application ignores future transactions and considers only
> "today's balance" ($5,500) then why was an alert raised following entry of
> the post dated transaction? If future transactions were considered then
> September 30th's deposit of $3,500 would offset the alert
>
> Thank you for your consideration in this regard.
>
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