If that's really your goal, the only sane way is to track them that way from
the get go. I.e., don't load credit card transactions, use an Expense
category for paying the bill. Everything else has bad side effects since
it's not how Money is intended to work/be used..

I've pontificated before on the difference between cash flow and budget.
Most people who want to do what you want to do are really concerned with how
much free cash flow they have after accounting for the monthly payment to
cover a large mass of credit card debt as a fixed obligation. Budget should
concern itself with whether your CURRENT expenses are supported by your
current income. To this question, the only thing of direct relevance is the
interest expense component of the credit card debt.

As to why you can't exclude the account from the budget, are you using DRP?
Are you using Essential or Advanced Budget? I'm not sure why you are seeing
this, but suspect something suppresses this option.

"Alex" <Alex[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I want to see my credit card payments (i.e., transfers to a credit accounts)
as an expenses in Money reports. I know that I should exclude credit accounts
from budget to achieve it, but it's impossible:
- I'm going to Account Settings, and "Include this account in the budget
planner" option is set
- Trying to clear this option simply does nothing - it's still set and
doesn't change.

Is it possible that I've forgot something else to do before excluding an
account from budget?