Michael

Some questions:

Did you assign a unique category for non-recurring income and
expenses? If not, you will need to do so.

Can you deal with simple spreadsheet programming or are you willing to
learn.

Would you want to use accounting software to track your personal
finances?
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I will assume you have assigned each non-recurring item so now what
you can do is make a copy of your .mny file and rename it, ( eg
report.mny ) so you will know it is only for reports. Launch the
report.mny file and using the search tool in advanced mode find all of
your non-recurring items and delete them. Now run your reports sans
those items.

The other 2 questions are ways you could do what you want.

arthur
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:08:08 -0700, "Michael" wrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, Michael wrote:

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You would think so.

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Money is different things to different people. If you buy stocks or
mutual funds, Money is a great way to track the data and assist in
tax preparation. Money can download transactions and other data for
checking and credit card accounts to track things. My favorite
things are not necessarily going to be your favorite things.

I don't use it for month-to-month comparison.

The Monthly reports do some rudimentary month-to-last-month comparisons.

M04 added some comparison reports, though I've had them for almost a year
now and have never run one.

"Michael" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18daf01c44b8c$d2903fb0$a001280a[at]phx.gbl...
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It seems like one of the most common things people would
want to do is make sure their normal monthly income
covers their normal expenses and savings goals. Does
nobody have advice on how to use Money to help me figure
this out?

If you don't use Money to answer this question, then I'm
super curious: what do you use Money for?? (Maybe there
are some other great financial questions I should be
asking myself, but just don't know enough to ask...)

Thanks,

--Michael
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I use the free OpenOffice.org office suite which includes an excel
like spreadsheet program. My rows are my assets and liabilities and
the columns are the months. I use a new sheet for each year.

I know I can do this in Mny03 deluxe in the Reports but I spend too
much time trying to figure out how to get what I want.

arthur
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:08:08 -0700, "Michael" wrote:
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Now that I have all my Asset and Liability accounts set
up and 5 months of entries that balance out correctly and
are categorized, I'm trying to figure out how to get
useful month-to-month comparisons.

What I want to do: make sure my normal income actually
covers my normal expenses and savings goals.

I want to see my average monthly income vs. expenses, but
not the default incomve vs. expense Report: I want to
ignore certain extraneous one-time expenses and
unpredictable income events, and I want certain income or
expense events to be averaged out over the year rather
than appearing in the month they occur. Right now
there's so much noise in the income vs. expense report
that I can't figure out what's really going on.

Any advice on how I can accomplish something like this?

Thank you,

--Michael