On 2005-05-19, Luigi <Luigi[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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Glad I could help.

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No. There's no way for you to see the investment accounts in your
budget. And yes it looks like a cost from the budget. That's the
way it should look. Basically, the idea is that you're going
to decide (usually in advance) how much you're going to invest.
The budget doesn't track the progress of those investments.
The budget tells you whether or not you've gone over or under
your plan for investing. And it does this very generically by
lumping everything together as "transfer out of budget accounts".
In my budget, the *only* transfers out of budget accounts are to
investment accounts. As a result, that budget category tells me
how I'm doing on my plan for investments.

If you want to understand the performance of your investments to your
overall cash flow, take a look at the "Income & Spending" report.
This won't let you compare your spending to how much you planned to
spend, but it will let you look at all of your accounts and their
overall impact on your net worth.

Dear Mark,
your answer was very useful. In fact, I want to see in the budget report
only the individual transactions in the credit card account and not also the
bill payment.
Entering both accounts in the budget (Bank and Credit Card) it works.
Anyway, I have some investment accounts and apparently is not possible to
enter them in the budget so every time I make a movement between these
accounts (for example I buy stocks) it looks as a cost in my budget and I
think that it is not correct.
How can avoid this other problem?
Many thanks
Luigi




"Mark Horn" ha scritto:

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On 2005-05-18, Luigi <Luigi[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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I'm not sure what you're asking for. On the one hand it sounds
like you want to not see "Transfers out of/in to budget accounts"
in your budget report. Then in the last statement it sounds like
you only want to see credit card transactions in your budget report,
but not bank account transactions.

These two goals are mutually exclusive. So let me answer this way.
Here's what I think you *should* do. (Of course, you're completely
welcome to ignore these suggestions.)

Put both your credit card account and your bank account in budget.
I don't know how to do this in M05. I use M04 and I do it by by
clicking on one of the accounts, then clicking on "Change account
details" and checking "Include this account in the budget planner".
When you do this, you will see all transactions from your bank
account and your credit card account in the budget reports.

This is the way it should be. When you pay your credit card bill it
is NOT an expense. It's simply transfering money from one account
to another account. The expenses are the individual transactions
in the credit card account.

I'm hoping that this answer gets to the heart of your question.
Please let me know if it didn't do that.

Hello,
I am using Money 2005 (Int. trial version).
I would like to know how to exclude the transfers from the report.
All the movement between the Bank Account and the Credit Card are included
and this is not correct.
In the report I want to see only the costs by date paid by credit card.

Many thanks
Luigi