Kevin, thanks again as always for your prompt response!
On Oct 28, 3:38 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com
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