On Apr 2, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Jay wrote: > I have a clearer example... I have a bucket for monthly parking > expenses. Generally, I allocate $175 a month and write a check that > drains that bucket. > > One month, I had an extra parking-related expense for $100. I > assigned that transaction to the Parking bucket (which left the > balance at -$100). It was a work-related expense, so I got reimbursed > as part of my pay during the next month. I manually moved $100 from > my Salary bucket to the Parking bucket to zero out that expense. > Then, when I went to allocate my income, MoneyWell calculated that it > only needed to put $75 into the Parking bucket. > > My question is: Did I use this software incorrectly? I expected MW to > allocate $175 for Parking since the bucket was at $0 and not include > that other transfer. > > Thanks for clearing this up.
Hi Jay, You did it all correctly but MoneyWell doesn't see the difference between a manual money flow and a money flow created via the Allocate Income panel right now so it only added $75. A future version will be more intelligent about this process. Thanks. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
