You are not alone. I too am having ongoing trouble with
Budget. I never do an autobudget, and always enter from
scratch, but it never shows the dollar amounts that I have
entered exactly in the Report View. In mine it either adds
4 cents or subtracts 4 cents from nearly every category,
no matter what the dollar value is. With Money 3.0 I never
had a single penny of discrepancy in 9 years of constant
use. I want my "Money" back. I paid $50 for this inferior
product last week. I did send MS this info and am waiting
for response. We will see just how well they do at being
responsible for and obviously flawed product that should
not have been released yet. I hate getting ripped off.

I have the exact same problem. Recurring bills or deposits
end up in the budget and if you do not put an amount
for "other ..." you end up with no budget amount. If you
do put in a dollar amount, you end up doubling your
expense.

I agree this needs to be fixed.
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I have tried that and still the problem is there. It seems
like it keeps the problem in the background even if you
delete the items, because your categories still hold the
links together. You'd have to wipe your entire file and
start fresh to fix it. But then it is not a fix, because
if you change or update a value ...I think you'd run into
this problem again ...it rather sucks

-Chris
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I have many items showing in my budget that are showing as
0 dollars for CURRENT MONTH Budgeted items. Furthermore, I
have several items in both the expenses and income
categories that are MUCH higher than they should be.

I believe this bug comes into play when you have a
RECURRING expense or income and you then create a budget.
Once the budget is created and you change or delete a
RECURRING item, it appears that the Budget application
looses its mind.

At this point my income is over 5 times what it should be
showing up as in my budget???? My mortgage line item is
more than double what it should be. It only makes the
problem worse when you try to delete the recurring bill
and re-add it. I even tried removing it entirely from my
recurring bills and just adding them manually. It still
has the same problem. Something in Budget is not being
cleared out properly or updated properly?

Please fix this Mr & Mrs Microsoft. I hate to ditch the
entire Money 2004 product just because of the Budget
feature, but let's face it... it is what I bought the
product for in the first place! -Man I can't believe they
didn't catch this bug earlier!

Thanks,
-Chris