Spiral, are you not using separate buckets for your bill payments? i.e. Mortgage, hydro, groceries, dogs, etc. I used to use Quicken a long time ago but if I think of MW in terms of the envelopes of cash I'm "allowed" to spend each month, it seems to be more simple than Quicken. For me, it was the initial shift in thinking that was so difficult. It really did require a considerable shift--I've never tried so hard to make software work as I have with MW. It's a credit to Kevin's vision as well as the people here on the Forum that kept me going.
Karen On 1-Jan-09, at 7:17 PM, SpiralOcean wrote: > > Having nested buckets would help to solve this problem. > > In Quicken I have a bills 'bucket' split into (rent, utilities, > telephone) > Each of those has a set amount. > > In Money Well I need to create a different bucket for each one of > those, or create a bills bucket with memo notes. > > On Jan 1, 3:58 pm, Jaysen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> New(?) can of worms.... Is it really necessary to reconcile if all >>> transactions are downloaded? (See Jaysen? I can be dense, too.) >>> Karen >> >> Oh no. Not dense... >> >> You reconcile to verify that your records and the banks records >> match. >> Some times you might find "extra" transactions in your account or in >> the bank statement. These need to be tracked down and figured out. In >> November I had someone run up $12K fraudulent transactions. It was >> very noticeable because of the size, but also because there were >> suddenly a large number of transactions listed that I had no record >> of. >> >> DL'ing transaction is just a quick way to ensure that you and the >> bank >> have the same entries. Always check these entries out and make sure >> that you understand where the transaction originated. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Jaysen > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
