[Kmymoney] Monthly vs. yearly in budgets

[Jack]

On 2012.02.02 13:22, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 20:00:52 Mikael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kujanp=E4=E4?=  
> wrote:
>> Hi! Could someone light what's the difference between using monthly  
>> or yearly field when creating budget? The only difference I have  
>> noticed is the amount that is entered, but in both cases it is used  
>> as equal monthly amounts.
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> I think the crucial word here is 'report' - ie it is not dynamic so  
> just displays sets of figures but does no calculations on them.
> Ideally what you are looking for is a budget spreadsheet; when you  
> enter the spending for Jan it would deduct it from the Annual total  
> and show the result as available for Feb etc.

When you create a budget, the only difference between monthly, yearly,  
and individual is how the amounts are entered.  For monthly, you  
specify an amount that is used every month.  When you specify yearly,  
the amount you specify is divided by 12 for the monthly amount.  For  
individual, you get to specify a different amount for each month.  Once  
the budget is created, only them amounts are used, not how they were  
initially specified.

If the manual is not sufficiently clear on this, I will be glad to take  
any suggestions on how to improve the wording.

Jack