SOLVED: partially at least, here's one reason its different: I get paid
bi-weekly. The budget entry page assumes and shows monthly as (Pay)x(26
weeks) / 12 months to arrive at a monthly amount (circa $8,X00). When you
get to the budget for a specific month, there may be two or three paydays
that month. So I have two paydays in December (not 2.166) which explains my
issue with getting $7,8XX.

"Christopher Glenn" wrote:

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Christopher Glenn wrote:
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I had a similar curiosity, on the expenses page I had everything entered to
the point where I had more income than expenses. When you clicked next the
following screen with the graphs stated expenses exceed income. I worked
for about and hour, trying the NG archives, resetting the DRP, nothing
worked. In short I think Money's budgeting leaves a lot to be desired.
I've gone back to Quicken (actually staying with Quicken) partly because of
the budgeting, but partly because Money just seems to get a lot of things
wrong, seems to suffer from far too much database corruption, and has a
shaky future with reguards to the MSN, Yodlee, Money tripartite.

I posted the following in another thread. Since your most likely working
with Payoll, you can try below with just one category in the Payroll and see
if the numbers change. Give the following a shot...


I to have an active Money file dating 9 years back. I started with Quicken,
then converted to Money back in '99 if I remember right.

However, there is a solution to the multiplying of bills in the budget.
After searching for a solution, I was able to determine a fix on my own which
works even for a lot of data. For me, I had to convert 2 payrolls a month
with 14 categories a piece and it took me a couple hours. You don't need to
archive, but historical budget data will be gone. There probably is a way to
take old budget data to create a historical budget, but I didn't see the
value-add in that. So here's how it's done step-by-step:

1. Create a new category like your old one.
2. Create a dummy category that you will never use. For example:
"_DummyCategoryDoNotDelete".
3. Do a Tools-> Find and Replace to move all your old categories to the new
one. A standard MOVE will not work, that will also move the duplicated
budget data.
4. Go to "Bills & Deposits" and make changes to your recurring bill's
category to the new one you created.
5. Go to "Categories" and delete your old category. It will ask what to do
with the transactions so select your dummy category. You cannot get rid of
the bad budget entries (MS a fix please off the Repair Level 2 option!) so
your dummy category will be a consolidation of all of thoes.
6. Go to "Categories" and rename your new category with your old category
name (unless you like the new one that is).

That should do it. You have to follow thoes steps for every category that
occurs, which is why payroll entries were so painful. Now if only I could
understand how the rest of the budget and debt planning works I'd be happier.

Graham S.






"Christopher Glenn" wrote:

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No, it's not Graham. Now it is worse...it says on my next month's budget
that my income will be $11,829--even though my budget is just $8k. Now, the
11.8k # would be my historical monthly income...but I turned off all switched
(at least I thought I did) that would cause any historical numbers to be
included in budget. My budget is supposed to be just my specifically
budgeted items. Any place to look to get rid of these hiding history factors?

"Graham" wrote:

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Is one your gross amount and the other your net?

"Christopher Glenn" wrote:

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Any reason why my "enter your income" page on my budget says my income is
$8,500 per month and then, when I finish the budget and go to the summary
screen, it says my income is $7800 per month. Nothing is hidden, is this a
bug? If my enter your income page says one thing and the summary another,
whats up with that?