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The Budget Requester lets you define budget lists. To
track check transaction expenses, you would assign these
checks to corresponding budgets, effectively budgeting
the transaction.
All Check Transaction requesters have a selectable button
labelled "Budget", which when selected brings up the
Budget Distribution Requester. From here, you distribute
the amount of the check to one or more different budgets.
When a budget is highlighted, the current expense limit
amount is displayed in the "Expense Limit" input field
for editing, along with the expense amounts for all check
transactions in the current checkbook (indicated by
CHECKBOOK: $) and for those only falling within the
current analysis period (indicated by PERIOD: $).
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The following list describes the functions available in
the Budget Requester. The order of these functions
corresponds to the order they appear in the requester's
menu bar. You can select any function using either the
keyboard (shown as "Keyboard:") or mouse ("Mouse:").
Budget Menu
Okay
Accept the current values as the Budget List for
the current checkbook.
Double-clicking on a Budget List entry is
equivalent to highlighting it and selecting "Okay".
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA Y
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Add
Activate the budget description and expense limit
input fields for you to define a new budget
category. Once an expense limit has been entered,
the budget will be entered into the Budget List in
alphabetical order. Duplicate and blank budget
descriptions are not allowed and will not be
entered into the Budget List.
Once a budget has been added to the list, its
budget description cannot be edited. Although you
can delete it, then add it again, any transaction
which is distributed to this budget will be
undistributed.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA A
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Delete
Remove the highlighted budget from the current
Budget List. A budget description must be
highlighted for this function to work.
If at least one transaction is distributed to this
budget, the program will ask if that transaction
should be undistributed from this budget before
continuing with the deletion.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA D
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Cancel
Terminate the current editing session of the Budget
List. Changes, such as those from the Load, Save,
Add, Delete, and Clear functions and from the
modification of the expense limit, made to the
Budget List will be preserved, unlike other Cancel
functions which restore the previous values.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA N
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
List Menu
Load
Retrieve from disk a specified Budget List as the
current budget list. A file requester will be
displayed for the selection of the Budget List to
retrieve. Files with an extension of ".CAb"
(signifying a Checkbook Accountant budget file)
will be displayed.
If at least one transaction is distributed to any
budget in the current Budget List, the program will
ask if those transactions should be undistributed
from their referenced budgets before retrieving the
new Budget List.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA L
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Save
Store to disk the current Budget List under the
selected file name. A file requester will be
displayed for the selection of a file name. If the
Budget List was previously saved, its current file
name will appear in the File input field of the
file requester. If the Budget List file currently
exists, the program will ask if the Budget List on
disk should be replaced with the current Budget
List version. The current Budget List will be
saved with a ".CAb" extension (signifying a
Checkbook Accountant budget file).
An icon file will be created to accompany the
budget file if the Budget List menu item under the
Program Prefs Requester's Icon Creation menu is
selected.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA S
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Default
Save the current Budget List as the default Budget
List. This is the same default Budget List which
can be loaded immediately after the definition of a
new checkbook. The Budget List is saved under the
file name "CAdefault.CAb" in the CA: defined
directory.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA F
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
Clear
Remove all the entries in the current Budget List.
The file name of the Budget List does not change.
If at least one transaction is distributed to any
budget in the current Budget List, the program will
ask if those transactions should be undistributed
from their referenced budgets before removing the
entries in the Budget List.
Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA E
Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
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The following list describes the input fields which hold
the budget description and budget expense limit amount.
The input format of each field is also given (shown as
"FORMAT:").
Budget Description (left-most input field)
The label used to identify a budget category. Some
examples include, "Car", "Food", or "Insurance".
FORMAT: Any sequence of characters (maximum of 32).
Expense Limit (right-most input field)
The expense limit for the current budget category.
This amount is compared with the total of all
distributions to this budget within the current
analysis period. Although the total distributions
from all the checkbook's check transactions to any
budget can be greater than the expense limit, only
those distributions from the transactions falling
within the current analysis period will be
compared. If the total expenses within the current
analysis period are greater than this expense
limit, the indicator "OB" (overbudget) will be
placed between the budget entry and its
corresponding expense limit; nothing is shown if
the total expenses are equal to or less than the
defined expense limit.
FORMAT: nnn,nnn.nn (commas not mandatory)
an amount between 0.00 and 999,999.99
-- END OF BUDGET HELP --