On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:33 PM, skylamar wrote:
> Hi. I am totally confused by Moneywell's display of Money Flows from > my Income buckets. Here is my situation: > > I have three income buckets. My first bucket is for Salary. Currently > I am on unemployment and I get $900 every two weeks. I deposit those > checks and assign them to the Salary bucket. I have "Include in > Combined Income" selected for this bucket. > > I have a second bucket for payments I get from a client for a web site > I designed for him. He pays me $125/mon. However, I only bill him > every four months. The last check I got from him was for $500 in > August. I want to spread the money from this client over four months > at $125/mon. To do that, I have created a third income bucket called > Other Income. Each month, I put $125 from my second bucket into the > Other Income bucket. The second bucket has "Include in Combined > Income" unchecked and the third bucket, Other Income, has it checked. > > In the "Allocate Income" screen, I chose "Combined Income Buckets." It > combined bucket one, Salary, which has most of my income, and bucket > three, Other Income, which contains $125. The total is $1925. I then > allocated all the money in the combined buckets until the balance > remaining for new flows equalled 0. I then clicked 'save allocation'. > > What totally has me confused is the following: > > In the main Moneywell screen, when I click the Salary bucket to view > its Money Flows it shows that $1800 flowed from the Salary bucket to > the Other Income bucket. No other Money Flows are listed for the > Salary bucket. I don't understand this at all because I never created > a Money Flow from the Salary Bucket to the Other Income bucket. All I > did was select "Combined Income Buckets" in the Allocate Income > screen. > > When I click the Other Income bucket, it lists Money Flows of all the > allocations I performed in the Allocate Income screen. > > Again, I don't understand this at all. I was expecting that the > Salary bucket's Money Flow would show Money Flows adding up to $1800. > Likewise, I was expecting the Other Income bucket's Money Flows to > only tally $125. > > Did I find a bug or am I not understanding how Money Flows work? Skylamar, It's not a bug but just a bad decision on my part as a way to do combined income buckets. That has been changed in 1.4 and money flows should look much better in this new release. Peace, Kevin Hoctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
