[Kmymoney] Some newbie questions

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Sunday 22 June 2014 01:33:33 Divan Santana wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply and input :)
> 
> On 14 June 2014 10:23, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > please find my comments inline.
> > 
> > On Saturday 14 June 2014 01:03:25 Divan Santana wrote:
> > > Hello Kmymoney Friends,
> > > 
> > > So I've finally invested sometime into switching to kmymoney.
> > > It's been a bit of work, but I think it will be worthwhile in the long
> > 
> > run
> > 
> > > and so far things are looking pretty good.
> > > 
> > > Think the program is great and appreciate the documentation too! So keep
> > 
> > up
> > 
> > > the good work and thank you!
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > > Few newbie questions to follow and mostly just asking from your guys
> > > experience on how you use it etc
> > > 
> > > 1) Month dates configurable?
> > > Typically I get paid on the 20th of the month and I have run my monthly
> > > budgets from the 20th to the 20th of the following month. Is this
> > > configurable/possible in kmymoney or will cause mismatches/problems? I
> > 
> > see
> > 
> > > on the reports I can configure a date to pull a report, but I'm
> > > concerned
> > > that on the front screen it's going to complain about my budgets being
> > 
> > out
> > 
> > > because by default it will likely calculate from the 1st to the 31st.
> > 
> > Yes, budgets are based on full months and this is fixed.
> 
> Ok then I'll just have to change my month to work from the 1st to 31st. One
> question/challenge with this is typically one gets paid towards end of
> month, eg 25th. That income is used for following months budget. This seems
> not possible in kmymoney since the income on 25th reflects in the current
> months budget. This wouldn't be an issue if every months budget/salary is
> identical, but that's not the case for me.
> Any idea how one can work around this.

How about assigning the January amount to the February column and so on? Don't 
know if that makes sense. The budget vs. actual report might be a bit off 
while doing so, although only on the income side of things.

While thinking about it: an income category has nothing to do with an expense 
category budget-wise. I know, this is different in real life. You could still 
base your expense budget on the income of the previous month and have valid 
reports and don't use any quirks.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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