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- - + +The Budget feature allows you to monitor your spending compared to a - budget.
- -The Budget feature allows you to monitor your spending by category and subcategory compared to a budget preset.
+As default, all accounts are included into the budget.
- -Open the Manage Accounts dialog from either the mainwindow-menu: - Manage / Accounts, or from the Manage Accounts icon on the toolbar.
- -To exclude an account in the budget tick the 'exclude from the budget' - option for each account on that you would not like to include in the - budget.
- - - -See Manage Accounts for more - details.
- -By default, all accounts are included into the budget.
+Open the Manage Accounts dialog from either the main window-menu: Manage / Accounts, or from the Manage Accounts icon on the tool-bar.
+To exclude an account in the budget tick the 'exclude from the budget' option for each account on that you would not like to include in the budget.
+ +See Manage Accounts for more details.
+ +Open the budget dialog from either the mainwindow-menu: Manage / - Budget, or from the Budget icon on the toolbar
- -Enter a budget amount against each category that you want to include - in the budget. For example, select the category Cash Withdrawal and enter - -50.00 in the 'Budget for each month' text box to allow spending up to - 50.00 in the category Cash Withdrawal each month.
- - - -See budget dialog for more details.
- -Open the budget dialog from either the main window-menu: Manage / Budget, or from the Budget icon on the tool-bar
+Enter a budget amount against some category that you want to include in the budget. If the amount for a category is 0.00 it will not be showed in the budget until you tick the 'Force monitoring this category' check-box at the bottom of the budget dialog.
+For example, select the category 'Cash Withdrawal' and enter -50.00 in the 'Budget for each month' text box to allow spending up to 50.00 in the category 'Cash Withdrawal' each month.
+ +See budget dialog for more details.
+ +Open the budget report window from either the mainwindow-menu: Reports / - Budget, or from the budget report icon on the toolbar.
- -The Decay column shows the difference between the amount spent and - the amount budgeted.
- - - -See the budget report for more details.
- -Open the budget report window from either the main-window-menu: Reports / Budget, or from the budget report icon on the tool-bar.
+The Result column shows the difference between the amount spent and the amount budgeted.
+ +See the budget report for more details.
+ + - +