Glyn
Mon Sep 20 15:10:14 CDT 2004
I think I read this posting as every 2 weeks, as you said 'twice a week' in
the original posting. It would be useful to look in the bills/.deposits
schedule to see exactly what it was recording.
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<breeto@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:344c01c49f4a$c09038d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your response!
>
> I can understand the program doing some special
> calculations with a budget item if it's a paycheck, but I
> told it that it occurs twice a month. I still think it
> would work out to 2 * 3400 * 12 months = 81600... 81600 /
> 12 = $6800 budget.
>
> I also tried changing it to $6800 monthly and still had
> the problem of seeing 10,000+ some months. If I only got
> paid once each month, 12 months a year, shouldn't every
> month have $6800 budgeted?
>
> I also have the same problem with the value it shows
> budgeted for debt planner and health insurance, just to
> name a few off the top of my head.
>
> I'll do some more testing and looking into it though. =\
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The numbers work - most months will have only 4 of a
> particular day. But say
>>that you get paid on the first friday of the month, and
> thats the first. The
>>next pay would be on the 15th and the last on the 29th -
> three payslips so
>>$10,200 in that month because there are 5 Fridays.
>>
>>--
>>Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
>>
http://money.mvps.org
>>
>>Check
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
> scid=fh;EN-GB;mny
>>for UK tips and fixes for MS Money. To send Microsoft
> your wishes or
>>suggestions, use
>
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
>>or
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/support/money/feedback
> especially
>>if it's a UK specific wish.
>>
>>I do not respond to any unsolicited email regarding Money
>>
>><breeto@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:33c601c49f43$67a5a270$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>>I had a very nasty bug with my budget in MS Money 2004
>>> that I hoped would be fixed in 2005 but it still exists.
>>> Some of the items in my budget show up with values in
>>> the "Budgeted" column that are WAY off (%150). For
>>> example, if I tell the budget that I expect $3400 twice
> a
>>> week for "Grossly Income", one month the budget will
> tell
>>> me I've budgeted $6800 for Grossly Income, which is
>>> correct, but then another month it will tell me I've
>>> budgeted over $10,000?! This happens with several items
>>> in the budget.
>>>
>>> Creating a new budget does not resolve the problem.
>>> However, I tested by creating an entirely new money data
>>> file and a new budget and this did fix the problem. So,
>>> thinking my money file was somehow corrupt I ran the
>>> repair tool which then told me there was nothing wrong
>>> with the file.
>>>
>>> Creating a new data file and spending the time to get it
>>> all setup again and transfer all of my information from
>>> the existing file is not an option.
>>>
>>> I'm starting to think this software is a scam. Should
> we
>>> really have to pay for a "new version" of MS Money once
> a
>>> year? With each new version I expect significant
> changes
>>> and fixes but each release seems just like the same old
>>> program with an overhauled interface - and not always
>>> overhauled for the better.
>>
>>
>>.
>>