Keeping my budget's yearly numbers intact

Let me first state that I am a newbie. When I set up my
budget making all of the items yearly budget items, it
figure out what the items income or expense would be per
month. Then when I look at yearly reports it transfers
the money per month back to a yearly total. The problem
is that many of my items are off by a few cents--for
example instead of our postage category being $2500
dollars it ends up being 2499.96.

I know why this is happening and it ends up being only a
few cents different, but I am putting our church finances
in Money and the quality of the report forms is important.

Also, is there anyway to add columns (or spaces) between
budget groups on the report forms or make the budget
groups print bold.

I am a newbie so any advice would be appreciated.

tightwad
Wed Dec 10 02:43:22 CST 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>Let me first state that I am a newbie. When I set up my
>budget making all of the items yearly budget items, it
>figure out what the items income or expense would be per
>month. Then when I look at yearly reports it transfers
>the money per month back to a yearly total. The problem
>is that many of my items are off by a few cents--for
>example instead of our postage category being $2500
>dollars it ends up being 2499.96.
>
>I know why this is happening and it ends up being only a
>few cents different, but I am putting our church finances
>in Money and the quality of the report forms is important.
>
>Also, is there anyway to add columns (or spaces) between
>budget groups on the report forms or make the budget
>groups print bold.
>
>I am a newbie so any advice would be appreciated.
>.
>

tightwad
Wed Dec 10 02:47:50 CST 2003

this is a cheesy work-around, but it's a microsoft
product. what else do you expect.

make a custom budget, this way you can enter the amount
for each month. You will be able to make it add up to the
total you would like. If your total budget for that item
is not divisable by 12, then money will lose precision.
If won't ask you what to do about amount less than a cent.

As for customizing the display, I have not found anything
that allows any changes. Not much flexablility at all.

>-----Original Message-----
>Let me first state that I am a newbie. When I set up my
>budget making all of the items yearly budget items, it
>figure out what the items income or expense would be per
>month. Then when I look at yearly reports it transfers
>the money per month back to a yearly total. The problem
>is that many of my items are off by a few cents--for
>example instead of our postage category being $2500
>dollars it ends up being 2499.96.
>
>I know why this is happening and it ends up being only a
>few cents different, but I am putting our church finances
>in Money and the quality of the report forms is important.
>
>Also, is there anyway to add columns (or spaces) between
>budget groups on the report forms or make the budget
>groups print bold.
>
>I am a newbie so any advice would be appreciated.
>.
>

anonymous
Fri Dec 19 10:45:01 CST 2003

Thanks for the help. It is truly appreciated!

>-----Original Message-----
>this is a cheesy work-around, but it's a microsoft
>product. what else do you expect.
>
>make a custom budget, this way you can enter the amount
>for each month. You will be able to make it add up to
the
>total you would like. If your total budget for that item
>is not divisable by 12, then money will lose precision.
>If won't ask you what to do about amount less than a cent.
>
>As for customizing the display, I have not found anything
>that allows any changes. Not much flexablility at all.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Let me first state that I am a newbie. When I set up my
>>budget making all of the items yearly budget items, it
>>figure out what the items income or expense would be per
>>month. Then when I look at yearly reports it transfers
>>the money per month back to a yearly total. The problem
>>is that many of my items are off by a few cents--for
>>example instead of our postage category being $2500
>>dollars it ends up being 2499.96.
>>
>>I know why this is happening and it ends up being only a
>>few cents different, but I am putting our church
finances
>>in Money and the quality of the report forms is
important.
>>
>>Also, is there anyway to add columns (or spaces) between
>>budget groups on the report forms or make the budget
>>groups print bold.
>>
>>I am a newbie so any advice would be appreciated.
>>.
>>
>.
>