Including "special" category transactions in a budget

Hello

I was wondering if someone could help out with the
following:

I want to set a limit for the amount of credit card
payments in my budget. To do that, I need to specify the
category for the transactions that I want to track in the
planner. However, when I enter a transaction for a credit
card payment into the register, I have to enter it as
a "special" transaction (i.e., "Credit Card Payment :
MASTER card"), so that it is linked in both "From"
and "To" accounts - otherwise, if I assign it to a
different category, the budget planner will see it as two
separate transactions.

The problem is that the budget planner does not allow
adding "special" categories - looks like it's only
limited to Expenses and Income.

Does anyone know how I can get around this problem?

Thanks.

Regards,

Sergey

Dick
Sun Aug 31 07:57:04 CDT 2003

Transfers are not a budget problem--using the card in the first place is the
problem. This is why Money works the way it does. The transfer is a cash
flow problem. Learn to manage the two separately and you will find sticking
to a budget works much better--you worry about the spending when you whip
out the card, not 60 days later when you have to pay the bill.

See FAQ http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q53.

"Sergey" <sergeybarbashov@msn.com> wrote in message
news:045901c36f82$0988ae90$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I was wondering if someone could help out with the
> following:
>
> I want to set a limit for the amount of credit card
> payments in my budget. To do that, I need to specify the
> category for the transactions that I want to track in the
> planner. However, when I enter a transaction for a credit
> card payment into the register, I have to enter it as
> a "special" transaction (i.e., "Credit Card Payment :
> MASTER card"), so that it is linked in both "From"
> and "To" accounts - otherwise, if I assign it to a
> different category, the budget planner will see it as two
> separate transactions.
>
> The problem is that the budget planner does not allow
> adding "special" categories - looks like it's only
> limited to Expenses and Income.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get around this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sergey