Hi Lenny, The amount you use for your cash flow start should be your net available cash as of 2/1/09. This means you would subtract all those 1/30 and 1/31 expenses. This will start you off correctly for the month.
Peace, Kevin Hoctor No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2009, at 3:59 PM, lterenzi <ltere...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Kevin - > > I started my Cash Flow Start Date at 2/1/09 and put what money we > wanted to start with since my wife and I got paid on the 30th of > January. I went ahead and just entered my transactions in the register > to get them in there and I am now getting around to assigning the > unassigned (things like clothes and household items) transactions to > buckets as I am fleshing out our spending plan. Any transaction that > occurred on 1/30 or 1/31 doesn't effect the buckets at all. > > For example, I made a clothing bucket but didn't give it an > allocation. On 1/30 and 1/31 we had some purchases that should be > assigned to that bucket. I assigned them and expected the bucket to go > negative (it did) and I was going to do a manual flow from my > remaining salary to zero it out since I did spend that money on the > clothing. > > I am doing this to really start refining my spending plan. I don't > have buckets for everything yet but after a month or two or regular > use I figure MW will show me what buckets I need to create and or > modify. > > So I am assuming this has something to do with my start date. How can > I fix this to accurately deplete my Salary bucket? Should I just > change my Cash flow start date a few days back and will that affect > anything else? > > Thanks > Lenny (as of yesterday and official registered user of MoneyWell!) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
