Put the full amount of income under the split for , let's
say, Salary and then put your cashback as a negative
amount under an expense category.
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"Toni" <cville1987[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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How are you recording your paychecks?

The "Paycheck" category creates a split with one tab for wages, and three
tabs for expenses (pre-tax, taxes, after-tax). Anytime you enter a
paycheck, you're recording expenses on a deposit, and I've never seen Money
have an issue with this. Adding one more expense (or transfer to a cash
account) to the "after-tax" tab shouldn't be an issue. If you've already
entered the total amount of the paycheck before adding the expense (or
transfer), Money should notice the discrepancy when you attempt to enter it,
and prompt you to correct it. One of the options offered will be to set the
total amount of the deposit to the correct amount.

If you're using regular splits for paychecks, you may want to consider using
the special "Paycheck" category. This will also help Money estimate taxes
more accurately, particularly if you have substantial pre-tax expenses.

Another way to account for cash kept out is to deposit the paycheck to your
cash account (assuming you have one), then make a transfer from your cash
account to your checking account to record the deposit. This technique also
works for depositing multiple paychecks in a single deposit.

--
Scott Tyler
agent_scotty-at-hotmail-dot-com

Be our guest and go to Quicken, but I'd say your problem can only be
technique because I've certainly done this kind of thing many, many times. I
don't have a clue what Tools|Options has to do with this. One doesn't go
into Tools|Options to split a deposit.

If you want to go to Quicken, please do:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...7&loc=105&sp=1.

If you want help using Money and are willing to quit being a jerk about it,
consider this example and then tell me why you can't do exactly the same
thing. It's not hard. There's nothing Money does to prevent it (besides
maybe making it impossible to schedule it this way which I already told you
is a stupid limitation in Money). Let's say I got $100.00 of Other
Income:Miscellaneous and spent $24.95 of it on Food:Groceries. I create a
deposit transaction in my Pocket Change account for $75.05 and split it into
$100.00 Other Income:Miscellaneous and -$24.95 Food:Groceries. Voila. That's
all there is to it. $75.05 gets deposited to the Pocket Change account.
$100.00 of Income gets recorded. $24.95 of Expense gets recorded. Piece of
cake.

I also don't have any clue what your problem is with tracking taxes and
paychecks, either. My paycheck changes all of the time and I have no problem
with that, either. It's not kinda stupid at all. It works just fine. Just
common sense in how to use it, that's all.

"Toni" <cville1987[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Tried it. Went into Tools/Options. Split the transaction,
part deposit, part expense, it still put it in my register
as the whole amount deposited. I know they know people
keep money out of their deposits, they didn't figure that
into the program, it shouldn't have to be that hard to do.
I can't track my taxes and such on my paychecks, because
alot of it is commission and it changes too much. You can
only do that if your checks are exactly the same
everytime. It's kinda stupid. I wonder if Quicken will let
you do all of this stuff, it seems like common sense to me.
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It won't let you schedule one that way, but it will let you enter one that
way. This is the stupidest thing about the M02 scheduled bills
redesign--there are now many more transactions you can enter but not
schedule than there were before.

Depending on what you are doing and your Tools|Options settings, it may also
complain about Income in an Expense or vice versa. Tell it you really want
to and to shove off.

"Toni" <cville1987[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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How can I show a cashback situation on a deposit. I want
my income to show more accurately in Money. But it won't
let you put an expense on a deposit, like when you split a
tansaction, tried that, it was the only thing I could
think of. I often times keep money out of a paycheck when
I put it in the bank.