Thanks, Chris! You are a gentleman and scholar!
Another MS software snafu to work around!!

lab

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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"LeDerrick Bouknight" <LeDerrickBouknight[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
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Except for back-dating your computer clock before starting Money, then
entering the budget, there's no way to control that directly.

Scheduled bills will affect the budget. If the categories in question have
scheduled bills, backdate the initial bill. Record the transaction, then
delete it from the register if it's a duplicate, or if you have other
reasons.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Thank you for your prompt response! I see exactly what you are talking about
concerning prior months data. The fixed budget amount applies for prior
months but not for the current month for whatever reason. Do you know of any
way I can fix this amount to show correctly for the current month? If so,
please advise. This is the functionality that I desire from this software.
If not, I'll have to try something else.

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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"LeDerrick Bouknight" <LeDerrick Bouknight[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
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Reports> Annual Budget. Look at budgeted values in different months. If
manually entering an amount, rather than the budget amount being determined
by a scheduled bill, those entered amounts sometimes do not apply until the
subsequent calendar month. The Annual Budget report is where you can see
that level of detail.

The Monthly Budget report can actually show a whole year's (or any period's)
budget. The difference between Annual and Monthly is that Annual has columns
for each month, and Monthly is a single summary amount. I didn't name them,
so don't ask me why.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Chris Cowles & Support Group: Please elaborate on what you mean by examining
the Annual Budget report? I'm having the same problem as Deepak Shenoy. I
must admit that I am extremely frustrated at this point!

I put in a budget amount of $500, and on the budget summary page, this
category comes up with a budget value of 469.67! Unreal!!

lab

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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"Deepak Shenoy" <DeepakShenoy[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F3B1FF8-C577-4058-9F62-3DEA28DCC062[at]microsoft.com...
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Have you examined this through the Annual Budget report? That may be
revealing.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Dear Support Group,

I have entered a value in a budget group in Money 2005. When I view the
budget in the edit mode it displays correctly e.g. $400. When I go to my
report to see how I am doing against my budget is states a planned number
that isn't the same e.g. $367.97. The actuals are fine but I cannot seem to
see where the problem lies. I have deleted and recreated my budget but allas
Money is not working correctly :-(