On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:31 PM, HenrikWL wrote: > I'm loving MW, but there is something I'm wondering that I figured I'd > better get straight right away. > > Here's the thing: I started using MoneyWell right after I'd changed > banks. The new accounts had their first transactions being the money > left over in my old bank accounts, so I totalled them up and set the > money flow start date to their date (14th of May) and added their > total to an income bucket. So far so good. > Hi Henrik,
Actually, MoneyWell requires you to start your cash flow on the first of a month. A good choice is June 1, 2009. > I got my salary from my employer, assigned that transaction to the > Salary income bucket, and flowed the money into the expense buckets. > So far so good. > > During the month, I was in total control of what I was spending where, > and how much I had left to spend on each category. No other personal > finance app I've tried has given me this clear and easy-to-access > information before. I'll definitely buy this app because of this. > > Today, when I opened MW, all of my expense buckets were empty. I > scratched my head a bit, but found out that changing the money flow > start date to 1st of June (leaving the other two fields displaying > what they did when I set up MW in the second paragraph here) brought > the bucket amounts back to what they were yesterday. Now, my question > is: is this the right way to do it? Are you supposed to change the > money flow start date each month? Or will this lead to problems later? No, you only set your cash flow start date once. You can restart it at anytime without losing data but you don't need to. If you have set it to 6/1/2009 and assigned a starting amount, you should have money in our primary income bucket and will see any spending done today as well. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
