Support for this: Anyone else that would like to see this feature

[J. Varela]

Thomas,

Does this mean that in master the budgets feature already allow you to
include the liabilities, such as mortgage loans and interest ( expenses)?

I can check it out later tonight! Pretty cool if it does!

JV

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 11:02 AM Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Freitag, 14. April 2023 15:12:47 CEST Louis-Philippe Allard via
> KMyMoney wrote:
>
> >   Quoting jvapr27--- via KMyMoney <kmymoney at kde.org>:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I found this bug and I would really like to have the budgets include
> > > liabilities. This bug seems very related. What do you all think? Anyone
> > > else wanting this?
> > >
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430047
> > > Jesse Varela
> >
> > You mean the loan payments (mortgage, personal loan, etc)?  If so yes
> > we need this for sure but the issue is:  it may (and probably) will
> > take some work to implement because the program needs to forecast the
> > loan payments for the year of exercise, and the current GUI doesnt
> > work well with this... What about by-weekly payments?  The current GUI
> > only has "Monthly, yearly or individual"...
>
> A budget is not a payment schedule. So for your loan payment, you can enter
> the amortization (that is the liability account) and the interest (that is
> the expense) as estimate for the whole year or more fine grained on a
> monthly basis if you want to have the super accurate budgeting. But that is
> usually not needed. The monthly budget is not tied to the number of
> payments.
> Budgeting nowadays even support a roll over into the following month on the
> reporting side. Not sure if that has been backported to the stable version
> but
> it sure is in master.
>
> And one thing is sure: the budgeting will most likely not be backported to
> the 5.1 branch.
>
> > Probably can be done but IMO lots of critical bugs to fix before....
>
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Baumgart
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