Carmine... Your Salary bucket goes down in line with what you allocate from it. Once you allocate to your buckets (so they will have amounts to dip into/subtract from), your Salary bucket will decrease correspondingly. I look forward to your questions about "Allocation." :-) That one took me awhile. Karen
On 31-May-09, at 2:30 PM, CarmineM wrote: > > Hi to everyone, > > I'm evaluating MoneyWell coming from iBank3 and I like a lot the whole > "envelope/bucket" thing. > I started 3 times from scratch but still I can't wrap my mind around > the buckets' system. > > Let's say I have only one checking account that has a starting balance > of 1223,85 on 31/12/2008. > I have assigned this transaction to the "Salary" income bucket, and > set the "Cash flow starting date" to 01/01/2009 with the very same > amount of 1223,85. > > Now I have both the checking account and the Salary bucket showing off > the same amount. So far so goo. > > The behaviour I expect is that, upon recording a transaction that > moves $20 from the checking account to the "Fuel" bucket, this bucket > should show a "-$20". Indeed, it does. > I also expect that the Salary bucket goes from 1223,85 to 1203,85 as a > "side effect" of the above mentioned transacion. Instead, it remains > steadily anchored to its original value. > > The thing is different if I drag'n'drop from Salary to Fuel bucket. > Under this circumstance, Salary loses $20 while Fuel gains it (+$20, > then). Then, if I record the transaction in the checking account then > the Fuel bucket goes from +$20 to $0. > > The question is, since my Salary bucket gets filled up automatically > when I record income transactions in checking account, why doesn't it > gets empited when I record spending transactions in the very same > checking account? > > Am I supposed to drag'n'drop from Salary bucket to destination buckets > for every spending transactions recorded in the checking account, or > am I doing something wrong? > > I beg your pardon if I haven't been very clear in formulating my > question and describing the scenario, but english is not my mother > language. > > Thansk for your help > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
