[moneydance] Registered Retirement Savings Accounts

[Tjalco P. van der Meij]

Greetings,

Edward Reid wrote:
> At 11:25 11/08/08 +0100, Tjalco P. van der Meij wrote:
>   
>> In their present form the tags are useful for  projects.
>>     
>
> Yes, this is basically what they are for, and what Q classes are for.
>
> But tags are not remembered for auto-completion.
I had not noticed but that I think is correct. You want to be able to 
tag only those transactions related to the specific project and do not 
want to end up with a lot of tags you forgot to remove after auto 
completion. But it is a matter of taste of course.
>  Tags apply only to one 
> side of a transaction, in contrast with everything else in MD.
Yes it should be like that otherwise you get double amounts in your 
project report. I think tags should only be applied to income and 
expenditure accounts as you want to want to find out the net cost or net 
income of a project, I would think.
>  Entering 
> tags by the keyboard requires a partly blind and somewhat bizarre sequence 
> of keystrokes, which sometimes don't work, apparently for the sake of 
> allowing multiple tags on a transaction, which wasn't needed. And these 
> issues were all reported in the first few months after tags were 
> implemented, and have not been addressed.
>   
That may be so, I am strictly a mouse man...
> True, if you like the one report on which tags are enabled, but tags are 
> not enabled on other reports. Yes, this is just part of MD's reporting 
> being poor, but the fact that transaction selection is predefined for each 
> report, rather than allowing a reasonable method of selecting transactions 
> to report on, is one of the main reasons that MD's reporting is so poor.
>   
Most reports work for me, but I grant you that I have to use 
spreadsheets for special-to-purpose reports.
Personally I feel that too much time is spent on investment reports. For 
that type of thing you can find many good programs outside Moneydance.
What I like about Moneydance is the ease of use for everyday 
transactions and the flexibility of use. If you know bookkeeping you can 
use Moneydance even for running a small business.
I work professionally with major accounting systems like Navision and 
Concord and I am always happy to get back to Moneydance.

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Regards,

Tjalco P. van der Meij
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