[moneydance] 2007 beta 2

[Sean Reilly]

On 1/7/07, Richard Bair <bairs5 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> In regards to pro-rating.  How does this work for a budget that has a mix
> of
> annual, monthly, etc.


The graph currently takes the sum of budgeted, prorated and actual values
for the graph.  If you had a annual budgeted expense starting on Jan 1 the
graph would likely show a lot of money left to spend before you hit the
prorated amount since we are only 2% of the way through that interval.  I
admit that in this scenario the prorated amount isn't very useful.

  The report that comes out seems to use the worst case
> and I'm uncertain how the toolbar view works.  I assume it's working it's
> way
> thorough January right now,  what will happen once I enter February?  Will
> it
> reset for the month even thought some of my budget items are longer than
> that?
>
> I think updating the budget report to have a date range as opposed to
> an  "up
> to" date might allow better reporting.  Any thoughts?


I am currently re-working ithe budget report to:
 1) Show multiple intervals, and
 2) Allow you to specify an arbitrary time period to display

Once I get it working it will work more like the old budget report (but with
multiple intervals shown on each report) but you also get the increased
flexibility of the new budget style.

Thanks,
Sean