Expense Tracking

Is there any way to just track expensed with out keeping
a check book, savings account, mortgage and so forth.
Not all of my expenses are paid for from my checking
account or the other accounts I list so they are not
being tracked. Besides it is double work to keep a chck
book and a money check book.

Dick
Sat Jan 31 16:10:58 CST 2004

Most of us do not keep a check book anymore.

"Jill" <jillandbruce@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:759401c3e842$8c22c3c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Is there any way to just track expensed with out keeping
> a check book, savings account, mortgage and so forth.
> Not all of my expenses are paid for from my checking
> account or the other accounts I list so they are not
> being tracked. Besides it is double work to keep a chck
> book and a money check book.

Jill
Sat Jan 31 18:12:00 CST 2004

That was not the question. The question is as follows:
Is there a way to track expenses with out keeping all the
accounts?
>-----Original Message-----
>Most of us do not keep a check book anymore.
>
>"Jill" <jillandbruce@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:759401c3e842$8c22c3c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Is there any way to just track expensed with out
keeping
>> a check book, savings account, mortgage and so forth.
>> Not all of my expenses are paid for from my checking
>> account or the other accounts I list so they are not
>> being tracked. Besides it is double work to keep a
chck
>> book and a money check book.
>
>
>.
>

Dick
Sat Jan 31 19:47:01 CST 2004

I know it wasn't your question, but it seemed the only relevant comment I
could make to your question.

The question you asked has no meaning. One enters transactions in Money to
keep track of expenses. Transactions in Money go in accounts just like trees
go in forests.

You could just enter all of your expenses in one big account--but what would
be the point? You could never learn much of anything from this. It wouldn't
really enable you to manage or plan anything. It really wouldn't be much
more useful--at the cost of a lot more work--than just piling all of the
receipts in a shoebox. Putting them in accounts makes collecting expense
information about 1% harder.

What is it about setting up accounts that scares you?

"Jill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:760101c3e858$0332c1d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> That was not the question. The question is as follows:
> Is there a way to track expenses with out keeping all the
> accounts?

Jeff
Sat Jan 31 23:25:47 CST 2004

Jill, if I understand your question correctly... Yes, you can do what you
want to do. You can use all the categories for expense accounts to track
all your expenses. But you will need to set up one account to pay them
from. If all you are interested in is the expense reports then just ignore
the big negative value that will grow in the account you use to pay the
expenses from.

But...MS Money can do alot more than just track expenses. I would take some
time and look at all the features of the product before you decide to use
just one small piece of it.

Good Luck,

--
Jeff Atherton
http://www.4mywealth.net

Dick
Sun Feb 01 12:14:26 CST 2004

BTW, careful re-reading of your post will reveal one thing: you never did
state a question, at least not in the conventional form of using a question
mark as punctuation.

"Jill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:760101c3e858$0332c1d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> That was not the question. The question is as follows:
> Is there a way to track expenses with out keeping all the
> accounts?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Most of us do not keep a check book anymore.
> >
> >"Jill" <jillandbruce@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> >news:759401c3e842$8c22c3c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Is there any way to just track expensed with out
> keeping
> >> a check book, savings account, mortgage and so forth.
> >> Not all of my expenses are paid for from my checking
> >> account or the other accounts I list so they are not
> >> being tracked. Besides it is double work to keep a
> chck
> >> book and a money check book.

Bryan
Thu Feb 05 11:37:43 CST 2004

I am having the same problem. I want to manually enter in
expenses that I pay cash with. I have yet to figure out
how to do this. I do not want to do a budget. I just want
to enter in my expenses under certain accounts, but the
only thing I have made sense off is to set up a onetime
payment. Am I missing something here? I really need to
enter in cash payments. Please email me with any
suggestions you have. I am using money 2003.
>-----Original Message-----
>I know it wasn't your question, but it seemed the only
relevant comment I
>could make to your question.
>
>The question you asked has no meaning. One enters
transactions in Money to
>keep track of expenses. Transactions in Money go in
accounts just like trees
>go in forests.
>
>You could just enter all of your expenses in one big
account--but what would
>be the point? You could never learn much of anything from
this. It wouldn't
>really enable you to manage or plan anything. It really
wouldn't be much
>more useful--at the cost of a lot more work--than just
piling all of the
>receipts in a shoebox. Putting them in accounts makes
collecting expense
>information about 1% harder.
>
>What is it about setting up accounts that scares you?
>
>"Jill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:760101c3e858$0332c1d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> That was not the question. The question is as follows:
>> Is there a way to track expenses with out keeping all
the
>> accounts?
>
>
>.
>

urbanwd
Fri Feb 06 08:55:34 CST 2004

"Jill" <jillandbruce@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<759401c3e842$8c22c3c0$a301280a@phx.gbl>...
> Is there any way to just track expensed with out keeping
> a check book, savings account, mortgage and so forth.
> Not all of my expenses are paid for from my checking
> account or the other accounts I list so they are not
> being tracked. Besides it is double work to keep a chck
> book and a money check book.

You can also have an account for cash if that is what you mean. I
track expenses by recording them from the account they happen and
allocating them to an expense category for reimbursed expenses.

Once a month I submit an expense report for the months transactions.
I use Money to remind me of them when I fill in my companies expense
form. When I receive the check, I deposit it but then allocate that
income to the expense category. Money warns me that this does not
make sense but then does it if I request it.

I glance at the category now and then. I do think it is getting used
by the cash flow but the numbers are small enough that I have not
bothered to figure this out yet.

Glyn
Fri Feb 06 14:42:24 CST 2004

Create yourself a 'cash' account. The you can use it like a bank account.
Accounts in Money don't have to match physical bank accounts - an account
can quite easily be the cash in your pocket.

--
Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
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for UK tips and fixes for MS Money. To send Microsoft your wishes or
suggestions, use http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
or email mnyukwsh@microsoft.com especially if it's a UK specific wish.
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"Bryan" <wassomeoneelse@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0c3501c3ec0e$c2dc2350$3501280a@phx.gbl...
>I am having the same problem. I want to manually enter in
> expenses that I pay cash with. I have yet to figure out
> how to do this. I do not want to do a budget. I just want
> to enter in my expenses under certain accounts, but the
> only thing I have made sense off is to set up a onetime
> payment. Am I missing something here? I really need to
> enter in cash payments. Please email me with any
> suggestions you have. I am using money 2003.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I know it wasn't your question, but it seemed the only
> relevant comment I
>>could make to your question.
>>
>>The question you asked has no meaning. One enters
> transactions in Money to
>>keep track of expenses. Transactions in Money go in
> accounts just like trees
>>go in forests.
>>
>>You could just enter all of your expenses in one big
> account--but what would
>>be the point? You could never learn much of anything from
> this. It wouldn't
>>really enable you to manage or plan anything. It really
> wouldn't be much
>>more useful--at the cost of a lot more work--than just
> piling all of the
>>receipts in a shoebox. Putting them in accounts makes
> collecting expense
>>information about 1% harder.
>>
>>What is it about setting up accounts that scares you?
>>
>>"Jill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:760101c3e858$0332c1d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>> That was not the question. The question is as follows:
>>> Is there a way to track expenses with out keeping all
> the
>>> accounts?
>>
>>
>>.
>>