Hi smokiibear,

Here's a painful way to fix this issue. I share your pain.

Hi Cal,

I've been thinking about your suggestion and I think I figured out a work
around. It's painful, but it works.

I've created about 10 duplicate categories for business categories, but as
personal categories, so for example "business telephone" is a business
account, but "~business telephone" is a personal account. I'm now tracking
my expenses in the 'personal' business accounts. This, of course prevents
you from correctly reporting business tax, balance sheet and income
statements, so what I do is go to the categories page and move the items in
the personal categories to the business categories, run my reports and then
move them back. It's ridiculous that MS will not let you have both in a
budget and this is time consuming, but it works. At the end of the year,
I’ll move everything to the business categories and level the items for year
end reporting purposes and start with a new year.

I’ll say it again, shame on MS for selling us a ‘combined’ product that will
not let you establish a budget for business and personal transactions. MS,
would you please add this to your list of possible enhancements?

Best regards,

Mike


"smokiibear" wrote:

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It's not possible. MS deem the budget facility to be for personal accounts
only.

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"smokiibear" <smokiibear[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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Is it possible, yet? What's the point of having a small business money
program without being able to include business categories into the
budget???