Creating Budgets

[Carla]

I work for a non-profit that has a contract with the State. In July,
we get our annual budget, a lump sum, line item budget. Accounts are
set up and we track expenditures. I was thinking to set it up so that
Quickbooks could generate budget/actual reports, but I don't see where
I can enter in the beginning budget amounts. I only see the screen
with the annual amount and 12 months of columns. Am I supposed to
divide by 12 or something? That's not really how we look at it in
reality - so much per month. We have certain things budgeted and then
the flexible monthly expenses.

The F1 Help wasn't very helpful.

I can keep generating things in Excel - just thought this would be a
cool tool.

Am I missing something? I have Quickbooks 2009 for NonProfits.

Thanks

[Laura]

"Carla" <brat...@gilanet.com> wrote in message
news:c83f31b7-e404-4598...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...

You can enter the budget using any monthly spread you want to. Divide by 12
or spread it to line up best with your historical pattern. The choice is
yours but you do need to enter the 12 months of data.

[Carla]

Figures QB wouldn't be that flexible. :(

OMG! I'm starting to WHINE again! :(

Thanks for replying tho! :)