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- The Budget Requester lets you define budget lists. To
- track check transaction expenses, you would assign these
- checks to corresponding budgets, effectively budgeting
- the transaction.
-
- All Check Transaction requesters have a selectable button
- labelled "Budget", which when selected brings up the
- Budget Distribution Requester. From here, you distribute
- the amount of the check to one or more different budgets.
-
- When a budget is highlighted, the current expense limit
- amount is displayed in the "Expense Limit" input field
- for editing, along with the expense amounts for all check
- transactions in the current checkbook (indicated by
- CHECKBOOK: $) and for those only falling within the
- current analysis period (indicated by PERIOD: $).
-
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-
- The following list describes the functions available in
- the Budget Requester. The order of these functions
- corresponds to the order they appear in the requester's
- menu bar. You can select any function using either the
- keyboard (shown as "Keyboard:") or mouse ("Mouse:").
-
-
- Budget Menu
-
- Okay
-
- Accept the current values as the Budget List for
- the current checkbook.
-
- Double-clicking on a Budget List entry is
- equivalent to highlighting it and selecting "Okay".
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA Y
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Add
-
- Activate the budget description and expense limit
- input fields for you to define a new budget
- category. Once an expense limit has been entered,
- the budget will be entered into the Budget List in
- alphabetical order. Duplicate and blank budget
- descriptions are not allowed and will not be
- entered into the Budget List.
-
- Once a budget has been added to the list, its
- budget description cannot be edited. Although you
- can delete it, then add it again, any transaction
- which is distributed to this budget will be
- undistributed.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA A
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Delete
-
- Remove the highlighted budget from the current
- Budget List. A budget description must be
- highlighted for this function to work.
-
- If at least one transaction is distributed to this
- budget, the program will ask if that transaction
- should be undistributed from this budget before
- continuing with the deletion.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA D
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Cancel
-
- Terminate the current editing session of the Budget
- List. Changes, such as those from the Load, Save,
- Add, Delete, and Clear functions and from the
- modification of the expense limit, made to the
- Budget List will be preserved, unlike other Cancel
- functions which restore the previous values.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA N
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
-
- List Menu
-
- Load
-
- Retrieve from disk a specified Budget List as the
- current budget list. A file requester will be
- displayed for the selection of the Budget List to
- retrieve. Files with an extension of ".CAb"
- (signifying a Checkbook Accountant budget file)
- will be displayed.
-
- If at least one transaction is distributed to any
- budget in the current Budget List, the program will
- ask if those transactions should be undistributed
- from their referenced budgets before retrieving the
- new Budget List.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA L
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Save
-
- Store to disk the current Budget List under the
- selected file name. A file requester will be
- displayed for the selection of a file name. If the
- Budget List was previously saved, its current file
- name will appear in the File input field of the
- file requester. If the Budget List file currently
- exists, the program will ask if the Budget List on
- disk should be replaced with the current Budget
- List version. The current Budget List will be
- saved with a ".CAb" extension (signifying a
- Checkbook Accountant budget file).
-
- An icon file will be created to accompany the
- budget file if the Budget List menu item under the
- Program Prefs Requester's Icon Creation menu is
- selected.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA S
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Default
-
- Save the current Budget List as the default Budget
- List. This is the same default Budget List which
- can be loaded immediately after the definition of a
- new checkbook. The Budget List is saved under the
- file name "CAdefault.CAb" in the CA: defined
- directory.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA F
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
- Clear
-
- Remove all the entries in the current Budget List.
- The file name of the Budget List does not change.
-
- If at least one transaction is distributed to any
- budget in the current Budget List, the program will
- ask if those transactions should be undistributed
- from their referenced budgets before removing the
- entries in the Budget List.
-
- Keyboard: RIGHT-AMIGA E
- Mouse: Menu Item; Command Button
-
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-
- The following list describes the input fields which hold
- the budget description and budget expense limit amount.
- The input format of each field is also given (shown as
- "FORMAT:").
-
-
- Budget Description (left-most input field)
-
- The label used to identify a budget category. Some
- examples include, "Car", "Food", or "Insurance".
-
- FORMAT: Any sequence of characters (maximum of 32).
-
- Expense Limit (right-most input field)
-
- The expense limit for the current budget category.
- This amount is compared with the total of all
- distributions to this budget within the current
- analysis period. Although the total distributions
- from all the checkbook's check transactions to any
- budget can be greater than the expense limit, only
- those distributions from the transactions falling
- within the current analysis period will be
- compared. If the total expenses within the current
- analysis period are greater than this expense
- limit, the indicator "OB" (overbudget) will be
- placed between the budget entry and its
- corresponding expense limit; nothing is shown if
- the total expenses are equal to or less than the
- defined expense limit.
-
- FORMAT: nnn,nnn.nn (commas not mandatory)
- an amount between 0.00 and 999,999.99
-
- -- END OF BUDGET HELP --
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