In the past, I've been all for Autobudget, but for some reason it's
totally screwing me up now. I've just set up a new budget (finally
getting organized), and autobudget did it's thing and pre-populated
most categories. I made changes where necessary, and when finished it
took me to the "Review your current budget status" screen. I was very
surprised to be over budget in almost EVERY category that Autobudget
touched. It seems that every single item that was pulled from the
Bills/Deposits screen with a red icon (i'm guessing these are
withdrawals...that's what they all look like to me) is showing up the
budget, but is not showing up under the "budgeted" column in the
"current status" screen. So here's an example (yes, fake numbers)
On Budgeting Expense screen:
Car Payment:
Car 1: 50.00
Car 2: 100.00
Other Car Payment: 0.00
Subtotal: 150.00
The 150 does get added to the expense total. Now, when looking at the
current status screen, it says that Car Payment has an Actual spend of
150.00 but a budgeted amount of 0.00, thereby putting me over budget.
WTF?!?
After playing around, I tried to change the "Other Car Payment" amount
to the 150, and sure enough, it pulled the Car Payment category from
the Expenses over budgeted limits section. unfortunately, this makes
the subtotal 300.00 above, which messes up the entire budget. i tried
removing the two car payments garnered from bills/deposits
(autobudget), but they won't remove. i deleted the category, hoping to
add it back empty, but when i added it back, it repopulated them.
I am at my wits end with this. This is very frustrating. Hopefully
it's not just a bug and I can actually fix it.
Thanks,
Jason