Simple (web?) application for producing something like a bank statement - ideas?

[Jake Maier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Chris Green
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:49 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Simple (web?) application for producing something like a
> bank statement - ideas?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 06:10:37PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > What about a financial program? GnuCash is great, free and will do
> > > what you want and even will do things you may want to do in the
> future.
> >
> > I'll take a look at GnuCash, I've looked at it before for other
> things
> > but not with this in mind, thanks.
> >
> ... and it doesn't do *anything like* what I want.
> 
> I want a simple ledger not a double-entry book-keeping program.
> 
> *All* I want is a way to enter debits and credits into a single
> account/ledger and show the balance.  GnuCash is total overkill for
> this and would insist on places to get money from, places to send money
> too, a balancing transaction, etc.
> 
> What I want is to be able to do the following:-
> 
> 2012-01-01      Initial Balance         100.00          100.00
> 2012-02-02      Buy hay                 -10.00           90.00
> 2012-02-10      Horsefeed               -47.50           42.50
> 2012-03-01      Payment from Fred        50.00           92.50
> 
> This is absolutely all I want, just a simple way to enter the above
> data and present it as a table. (Well, I want the computer to calculate
> the last column, the balance)
> 
> My ideal way of showing this would be a 'grid' on a web page which
> would show a blank row below the last entry into which one could type
> the next row of data.  I can produce something like this in MS Access
> but would prefer Open Source and Web based if possible.
> 
> --
> Chris Green
Chris you don't need to do a double entry system when using GnuCash. You can
just use one ledger and enter exactly the data you listed here nothing more.
You will not get a balance for each entry history, but you will get the
total balance and I take it that is anyway what you want.
Installing the system costs you 1 minute and you can use any of the accounts
as a simple ledger and start putting in date, description and amount and
that's all. Underneath you always will see the balance.
You know if you have a 30 speed racing bike with speedometer, and clips and
all bells and whistles, you still can just as easily just push it as you can
a one speed walmart bike.
Excuse my stupid comparison but I couldn't think of a better one momentarily
:)
Jake