I've seen some problems. I just wanted clarification of the specific problem
you were encountering.

-Mark
"Jeff" <jldavid[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I appreciate your help, but have you not had any problems with the budget
giving you strange numbers? It seems so overt to me.
"Jeff" <jldavid[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I deleted out of the Bills & Deposits schedule
"Mark" <abcd[at]abcd.com> wrote in message
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When you said you took out "everything" from Bills and Deposits, how?
Did you "delete" the Bills and/or Deposits, or "end" them?
Reference
http://support.microsoft.com/default...41&Product=mny

If that wasn't the issue, can you provide some specific examples. i.e.
In the Budget, xyz category shows $100 (or on the "Enter your expenses" page
the total shows $1234.56). Whereas on the "Review your current budget
status" page, "Expenses: current month" shows a Budgeted amount of $1000.00.

-Mark


"Jeff" <jldavid[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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No, I have taken everything out of their and debt reduction planner to make
sure there was nothing to pull from.

"Mark" <abcd[at]abcd.com> wrote in message
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Money's Budget pulls from the Bills & Deposits area. So, do you have some
recurring bills and/or deposits entered in Bills & Deposits? Is that the
difference?

-Mark

"J Davidson" <jldavid[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Ok, I will try again. It is not the individual categories that are not
showing the correct numbers I entered. It is the total on budget reports.
Again when I go to the edit budget and look at all the numbers I set in my
budget they are correct and the total expenses is correct. Once I finish
however and look at the page with "review your current budget" as the page
heading there is a mini report at the top that lists my "expense actual"
with a different column "budgeted". I do not know where it is getting the
number for budgeted expenses because it is hundreds of dollars off from what
I had just set in my budget. Additionally if I go to the "view reports" and
choose monthly budget the numbers listed on that report for "budgeted
expenses" totals is different than I set in my budget and what was on the
previous screen. If I go back to "edit budget" the numbers and categories
are all set as I entered them...it is just not showing a monthly total in
the reports and on the "Review you current budget status" page.
"Mark" <abcd[at]abcd.com> wrote in message
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Provide some specifics.
What numbers did you enter and where specifically. ONLY in the Budget, or do
you have some "Bills and Deposits" as well that is being imported into the
Budget?

-Mark

"J Davidson" <jldavid[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Examples:

After setting the budget the number entered are all correct that I entered.
However, if you then go back to the budget link on the on the menu there is
a "Review you current budget status" and in that Income: Current Month and
the "Expenses: Current Month" the amount that is listed as budgeted in the
current month is totally different and what I entered in to be the budget.
And then if you go to "Reports" and then monthly budget the amount shown as
budgeted is different than what I had set up in the budget.

"Mark" <abcd[at]abcd.com> wrote in message
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Provide some examples of Money not "showing accurate dollar amounts".

Is it for example a weekly or biweekly paycheck?
If so, the budget is going to pro-rate it to give you the monthly average
(i.e. 52 weeks divided by 12, or 26 biweekly divided by 12). The actual vs
budget reports will show the months with 4 (or 5) weekly, and 2 (or 3)
bi-weekly paychecks.

-Mark

"Jonathan Brett" <jonnybrett[at]netzero.net> wrote in message
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I hear ya. I too am having the same frustrations. After
using 3.0 for 9 years, and upgrading to WindowsXP, 3.0
didn't function properly. Now, after being indirectly
forced to use a newer version of Money, I bought Money
2004, and have been very unimpressed due to it's problems
with showing accurate dollar amounts. Specifically in the
budget portion. This is boggling to me: A program that
it's sole purpose is accounting and dealing with numbers
ought to be able to do just that. Instead this new version
is filled with a bunch of wasted grapical tools and
confusing screens that make basic tasks complicated. Show
me the correct numbers not the "soft feel" of cartoonish
screens prevalent on modern day programs. It's unfortunate
today that programmers put way too much emphasis on "user-
friendly" rather than better-performing. I too would love
a version that is straight-forward like 3.0 was, but also
works with XP.

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My suggestion is that you forget about Money 2.0 and use a simple worksheet
like Excel to do your actual versus budget analysis. Steve

I have used Money 2.0 for years for my fire department
budgets and have 10 years of data. I could keep tabs of
year to date spending with actual, budgeted, and
difference. I had to upgrade to XP for my fire software,
and now money 2.0 does not work. I upgraded to Money 2000
but the budgeting does not work like in Money 2.0, the
budgeted amounts change, and they have all this occasional
fields and monthly and fields I don't need. Microsoft
recognizes this problem. Is there a version that will work
with XP and have the old budgeting like in Money 2.0?
Maybe 4.0 or 97 that will work on XP.