Combined Income: Take Two

[Dave]

I am wondering if this is a normal thing. I don't think it is. It
doesn't make sense. But here goes.

I am trying to play with Combined Income. I'm not really sure that I
understand it. (Maybe this means a Juditorial would be good! I just
made that up. I kinda like the way it sounds.)

I go through and select my two income buckets for Combined Income.
Okay. So far so good. Then, I get a paycheck in one of them. So it is
time to allocate. I go to the allocate button and make sure it is on
Combined Income. I allocate the money. I hit okay. Now, it says that
one that received the paycheck's bucket has been overallocated
$1483.22! While the other bucket says it now has $1483.22 more to
allocate.

What is going on?

Thanks!

Dave

[Kevin Hoctor]

Dave,

I'm not sure. It sounds like a bug but this is the first time I've
heard of it. Allocate Income is supposed to take money from the bucket
with money and create cash flows to the expense buckets. It's not
supposed to touch and income bucket without money. I'll run a few
tests to see if I can recreate the problem.

To correct this situation in your case you'd need to click on the
income bucket that has the money flows, then look over to the right
and remove those money flows (click the "-" button below the money
flow list until they are all gone), and then redo your allocate income.

Peace,

Kevin Hoctor
ke...@nothirst.com
No Thirst Software LLC
http://nothirst.com
http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com

[TC]

Hi Kevin and Dave,

First time user, and I'm loving it.

As for the issue Dave mentioned, I think I'm experiencing a similar
issue. I have two income buckets, one named "salary" and one named
"interest."

When I click "Allocate Income," and make sure the source is "combined
income buckets," all of the money from "salary" gets moved to
"interest" and then allocated based on the figures set from my
spending plan. However, if there is money left over (which there
usually is because of the first half/second half stuff), all of the
money is left in the Interest bucket (usually much more than was
originally there - i.e. I had $6 in interest last month, and after
this process, I now have $50).

I repeated this process with the names "salary" and "z-interest", and
in this case, all of the money from "z-interest" is moved to "salary",
and then allocated. It seems to me that all of the money in the
"combined bucket" just gets moved to the first alphabetical bucket. Is
this true, Kevin? And if so, is there a better way to get around it
than renaming income buckets to "x-interest" and "y-bonus"?

Thanks!

TC

On Jul 12, 9:59 am, Kevin Hoctor <ke...@nothirst.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:51 AM, Dave wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am wondering if this is a normal thing. I don't think it is. It
> > doesn't make sense. But here goes.
>

> > I am trying to play withCombinedIncome. I'm not really sure that I

> > understand it. (Maybe this means a Juditorial would be good! I just
> > made that up. I kinda like the way it sounds.)
>
> > I go through and select my twoincomebuckets forCombinedIncome.
> > Okay. So far so good. Then, I get a paycheck in one of them. So it is
> > time to allocate. I go to the allocate button and make sure it is on

> >CombinedIncome. I allocate the money. I hit okay. Now, it says that

> > one that received the paycheck's bucket has been overallocated
> > $1483.22! While the other bucket says it now has $1483.22 more to
> > allocate.
>
> > What is going on?
>
> Dave,
>
> I'm not sure. It sounds like a bug but this is the first time I've  

> heard of it. AllocateIncomeis supposed to take money from the bucket  

> with money and create cash flows to the expense buckets. It's not  

> supposed to touch andincomebucket without money. I'll run a few  

> tests to see if I can recreate the problem.
>

> To correct this situation in your case you'd need to click on the  incomebucket that has the money flows, then look over to the right  

[Kevin Hoctor]

On Aug 3, 2008, at 3:38 PM, TC wrote:

> First time user, and I'm loving it.
>
> As for the issue Dave mentioned, I think I'm experiencing a similar
> issue. I have two income buckets, one named "salary" and one named
> "interest."
>
> When I click "Allocate Income," and make sure the source is "combined
> income buckets," all of the money from "salary" gets moved to
> "interest" and then allocated based on the figures set from my
> spending plan. However, if there is money left over (which there
> usually is because of the first half/second half stuff), all of the
> money is left in the Interest bucket (usually much more than was
> originally there - i.e. I had $6 in interest last month, and after
> this process, I now have $50).
>
> I repeated this process with the names "salary" and "z-interest", and
> in this case, all of the money from "z-interest" is moved to "salary",
> and then allocated. It seems to me that all of the money in the
> "combined bucket" just gets moved to the first alphabetical bucket. Is
> this true, Kevin? And if so, is there a better way to get around it
> than renaming income buckets to "x-interest" and "y-bonus"?

I'm working on a better way. Which income bucket your money is in
usually isn't as critical as the expense buckets so I dumped one into
another for the combined income allocation process. I've set a primary
income bucket flag in 1.4 and I'm testing that concept out now.

Peace,

Kevin Hoctor
ke...@nothirst.com