Well Guys, thanks for your candid views on the matter. However, I was hoping
for a solution. I have been using Money since the 1997 release. I then
upgraded to 2003 and then 2005. Since using Money. it has helped me immensely
to manage my finances. Knowing rather than taking the "ostrich" approach
makes more sense. It can be time consuming at times, but being strict whilst
trying not to be addicted, I can certainly say that I have saved myself a
bunch of grief. Back to the problem though. Where does this figure come from.
I think it should represent the balance of all expenses not yet cleared/paid
at the specific moment in time that I am looking at. i.e. This months
budgeted expenses, (or another period that, can be defined), plus the total
amount of outstanding ACTUAL expenses from credit cards not yet paid as
defined in the debt reduction planner. Would that be accurate?

Any ideas anyone?

"Mark Horn" wrote:

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On 2005-10-14, shaunx4 <shaunx4[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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While I agree with you that there are a large number of annoying bugs
in BP, I don't go so far as to say that it's completely useless.
Most of the bugs are easily fixed by exporting a budget report to
excel and making manual tweaks.

Is this ideal? No, but I don't think BP is completely useless.

I know this is not what you want to hear but the Budget Planner is completely
useless from my POV. There are too many bugs that Microsoft refuses to fix.
Instead we get more advertisements and a few new pin stripes on each new
version of money. Sorry.

"Simon" wrote:

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Hi,

I'm using Money 2005 and am very happy with it apart from being extremely
slow in entering transaction (that's another major gripe), but now I am
trying to get to grips with the Budget.

Could someone please explain in SIMPLE terms, how the budget determines the
Debt Reduction Planner amount in the budget. It is nowhere near the real
figure as displayed in the Debt Reduction Planner screen. The amount is 5 1/2
times greater making my budget totally useless. I tried looking at othe posts
on the subject, but couldn't find an answer. If someone could explained where
the figure comes from, prehaps these amounts could be manipulated or at least
understood . The budget won't be of much help otherwise.

Thanks,