This section is intended to give you a brief introduction to the basic concepts and terminology you will need to understand in order to make sense to the rest of the documentation.
| A-B | C-D | E-J | K-O | P-Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Accounts Assignment Budget |
Categories |
Payees Remind Scheduled Split Tags Template Transactions Wallet |
Wallet is the 1st level of data's. It represent a HomeBank file (.xhb)
Managing the few wallet properties is done in the Properties dialog.
Accounts is the 2nd level of the data's. An account is a
division of the wallet, that will contains your financial
transactions.
Managing the accounts is done in the Accounts
dialog.
Transactions is the last level of data's. A transaction is a financial transaction, attached to its own account.
In addition to the usual fields you can find in most accounting application, HomeBank offers the following:
Managing transactions is done in the main window or the account window.
Split is the ability to cut out the amount of a transaction to multiple categories.
Managing split is done in the Split dialog from the Transaction dialog.
Scheduled is a transaction you can configure to be automatically inserted.
Typical such transactions are the one's occurring very often, for
example: Wage, Rent, Phone, Taxes, etc...
Managing scheduled is done in the Scheduled/Template
dialog.
Please have a look at Using the Scheduled transaction feature for more details.
Template will enable to fast add manually some transactions without too much seizure, most of the fields already populated with correct data
Managing templates is done in the Scheduled/Template dialog.
Templates can also be created from existing transactions from the
Account window.
Every template is available as a bookmark for fill purpose in the Transaction dialog.
A payee can optionally be set for each transaction to later perform
sorting, filtering and analysis. The payee identify people you give money
to, as like as those you receive money from.
Managing payees is done on the Payee dialog.
Payees are global to the wallet and are shared between all the
accounts.
A category can optionally set for each transaction to later perform
sorting, filtering and analysis. The categories is another classification
model of your financial transactions.
Managing categories is done on the Categories
dialog. Categories are global to the wallet and are shared between
all the accounts.
Please also note well that categories and subcategories are the same from a HomeBank point of view, the subcategories are only to create a hierarchy in category tree. This is especially important for the budget dialog
Some tags can optionally be set for each transaction to later perform sorting, and analysis. The tags are most common to those yo can find in the web, so it is words separated by space.
Assigments are some rule to fastly set payee and/or category to the transactions
Please refer to the Using the Automatic assignment feature for details on how using this feature.
Remind is a special status for the transaction. The purpose here is to keep the transaction into the list for later uses to remind you about a bill to pay, a bill to be payed for.
Remind transaction are excluded from any computing: balance, reports, etc.
The budget is aimed towards reporting comparing actual values to pre-defined budget values allocated to each expense/income category. The budget report shows the difference (decay) between the budget and the actual expense/income for each categories. You can select which accounts are included in the budget report.
Using the Budget feature provides a quick overview to get you started. For more in-depth details see the Budget dialog and the Budget report.
The budget is global to the wallet, so if you need to manage a different budget each year, you can use csv import/export capabilities.