Quote Originally Posted by Cookiebaker View Post
Wow, Catlady, thanks for sharing. I am a budget-holic too and found your accounting system so interesting.

I use Quicken to manage our accounts
I don't have Quicken, I use the Microsoft Money program that came with my cpu. After all these years I'd be reluctant to try and fool a new program into doing what I want it to do.

I list the checks in an imaginary acct called 'temporary'. From there I do 'transfers' to each catagory going by my cheat sheet. That way I can pull up one page and see where every penny went for that pay period, and it automatically updates the amounts in the separate catagories.


Quote Originally Posted by kt_luvs_kitties View Post
Catlady, MY GOSH! Dont you get a headache will all of that thinkingabout and moving funds? I could not do that. Good for you!
I used to get a headache when I first got it set up until I figured out how to fool the cpu into doing what I wanted it to do. The only time it's really a pain now is if I have a check mid payweek or cash I have to deposit. I hate making extra trips to the bank and it messes up my brain trying to figure out how to do it all together in one transaction. In actuality I hate math and am very bad at it. That's probably why I have to have everything accounted for separately and have to accout for every penny.

The biggest headache I get is trying to balance the actual checking/savings books. I do have a 'reports' section in the cpu that will add up the individual funds in a particular book which helps alot. When I click the report it should match what the book has, if not then something didn't get added to one or the other, which does sometimes happen. Once in a while if I'm in a hurry I'll add the deposit on one but forget to add it on the other. oops!