For reporting perposes, they are January expenses. The cash flow will be correct though because you deducted them from your initial amount.
Peace, Kevin Hoctor No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2009, at 7:15 PM, lterenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > But all those 1/30 and 1/31 expenses are really February expenses and > I want the buckets to reflect that. Will that still be the case? > Should I set my Cash Flow Start Date to 1/1/09 instead? > > On Feb 14, 7:30 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 LLChttp://nothirst.com >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 14, 2009, at 3:59 PM, lterenzi <[email protected]> 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 [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
