FinanceFerret/HyperMoney

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HyperMoney is my attempt to write a money-management program (as in Quicken or Microsoft Money) that is actually usable and has no Stupid Features. It will be Open Source, as soon as I have source worth publishing (as of 2005-08-06, it's all written in Microsoft Access 97). The next step may be to convert it to web-based application, as HTML could possibly overcome many of the interface design issues I'm encountering.

Project Goals

• To avoid shortcomings in existing money manager software: see HyperMoney: Flaws in Other Software
• To minimize the "setup curve", i.e. the amount of preparatory work needed before any useful amounts of data can be entered
• To provide all basic functionality needed for the following:
  • Tracking and balancing one's bank accounts, credit cards, and other basic types of money accounts
  • Tracking debts and loans involving one or more other parties of varying levels of disorganization (they might or might not send you regular statements or even reliable itemizations)
• To make data entry as painless as possible:
  • Easy identification of redundantly-entered transactions -- so you can Just Start Typing instead of worrying about where you left off last time
  • Deferred data massaging -- so you can Just Start Typing, and worry about assigning proper accounts and categories to things later; the program should keep track of incomplete data massaging so you can take care of it when you have time

Data Design

There are two main areas of concern: Accounts and Transactions.

Acccounts

Accounts

Field	Type	Description
ID	int(4) autonumber
Name	text	short name for account
Descr	text	description and notes
ID_Type	int(4)	AcctTypes.ID: type of account

Links

• http://braincore.blogspot.com/2005/05/koding-what-am-i-koding-then.html - A Dutch developer discusses accounting software, briefly. Apparently they don't use checkbooks in Holland.