The 'Newer' Budget Format
After creating your budget, close the Budget Manager window, and select the budget in the left sidebar.
All of your categories will be displayed on the right.
Three columns will be displayed - showing the previous interval, current interval, and upcoming interval.
E.g. Last month, this month and next month.
The center column is the active time period being budgeted for. Within this you'll see two columns of numbers.
The left number is the amount (either income or expenses) currently in the category.
The right number is the amount you have budgeted for the category.
To set the amount, click the number on the right and enter the amount that you want to budget for that item. The number will be 0 if you haven't budgeted anything for that category.
You can easily set your budget based on past spending by right-clicking on the heading of any of the time period columns and selecting one of the following options:
Copy and rollover previous period Sets this period’s budget as the sum of last period’s budget and the difference between the previous period’s spending and budget.
For example, if last period’s grocery budget was $200 and you spent $150, this period’s grocery budget would be $250.
Copy previous period Sets this period’s budget as the last period’s budget.
For example, if last period’s grocery budget was $200 this period’s grocery budget would be $200, regardless of what your spending was in the previous period.
Use actual spending from previous period Sets this period’s budget as the amount spent during the last budgeting period.
For example, if last period’s grocery budget was $200 and you spent $150, this period’s grocery budget would be $150.
The view filters can be located at the top right of the budget screen, within the blue bar.
All - Displays all categories in your data file.
Budgeted - Displays only categories that you’ve set budgeted amounts for the current calendar year
Active - Displays all categories which have been used this calendar year.
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