Regarding the change in your income and expenses... Money computes your
income and expenses based on the days in the current month. Thus, since you
get paid every two weeks, Money essentially figures out how much you get
paid per day and then multiplies that amount by the days in the current
month. For all purposes, your budget is more precise this way although it is
a little confusing.

As for the scheduled payments showing up with $0 budgeted in your plan, I
had that issue in Money 2004. If I remember correctly, I believe I needed to
delete the scheduled payments and recreate them.

HTH,
Merg

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I haven't solved yesterday's yet.

"Paul D Thompson" <pdtsyzygy[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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I recently upgraded from Money 2002 to Money 2006 at the urging of a
friend who told me the budgeting feature in 2006 was fantastic.

However, I can't seem to get it to work. There are two major
problems:

First Issue:
I enter my income, very simple, only one item. I get paid every two
weeks, so Monday computes a monthly subtotal, and this is correct.
For the sake of argument, let's say it's $1000. Then, I enter my
expense budget items, including double-checking the ones Money pulled
from my scheduled Bills. These are all correct. For the sake of
example, let's say it's $800.

So at the bottom of the expense screen it says
Income $1000
Expenses $800
Left Over $200

This is all correct. I hit Next and I the message "You currently have
$343 of unallocated money." This loses me, so I hit next again, and I
get the pie graphs, where I can clearly see my income has been
inflated, for absolutely no reason.

Then, I go back to the main Budget screen, and I notice under the
Budgeted column, it shows Income at $2143, budgeted expenses at $1126,
and $1017 left over.

Finally, it says I'm over on my mortgage payment because the budgeted
amount is $0, even though I clearly have a budgeted amount. It does
this with any line item that is tied to a scheduled payment, and yet I
can't get rid of the payments and have an all-custom budget.

HELP!