On May 1, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Cam wrote: > I have seen this subject presented on this forum but it has been some > time and I am looking for some up-to-date information or a possible > new solution. I am new to MoneyWell and spent the last couple of days > entering all of my data from Jan 1. So, now I am on to the spending > plan and excited to see my average spending, but, there's a problem. > I have several, okay make that a lot of buckets that have 1 or 2 total > transactions for the past 4 months and the historic average simply > does not reflect the average. > > For example; My vacation bucket shows transactions totaling $500 in > January and $259 in February, $0 March and April. My average spending > from January thru April is $189.75. That sounds about right, but I > had to delve into my calc app. to get to that number. The spending > plan actually shows the average amount as $759. Dang, this was my #1 > frustration with Quicken. I know I can just grab a calculator but > that defeats the purpose. This must be a difficult thing to program > but if there is anything that can be done please please fix this! I > would really like to see my spending average before next January :) > > Anyway, I do love the program and can already tell it is going to help > simplify my once enjoyed task of financial management (which had just > become a dread with Quicken). Hope this feedback helps!
Hi Cam, The problem is that MoneyWell's various historic methods don't account for this scenario well. If you tell it to average all your months, it will divide your total only by the months that have activity ignoring the zero months to keep your average from getting lowered. The other methods either divide by 12 or take last month's spending literally. I guess MoneyWell would need another option for all history divided by all months. I'll take a look at this again and see if there is a clean way to implement both the existing all history and your requested one. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
