On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Lance wrote:
> How do others use the various transaction statuses?
>
> This is my understanding of what they should mean, but MoneyWell seems
> to interpret these slightly differently:
>
> Open: a manually entered transaction that has physically taken place
> but not y
On Apr 4, 1:33 pm, Kevin Hoctor wrote:
> You need open transactions to be counted because before your account
> is reconciled, you need to know that you've already spent the money
> and it's out of your account.
>
But isn't this the purpose of the buckets? If you respect your bucket
balances
On Apr 4, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Lance wrote:
> On Apr 4, 1:33 pm, Kevin Hoctor wrote:
>> You need open transactions to be counted because before your account
>> is reconciled, you need to know that you've already spent the money
>> and it's out of your account.
>>
>
> But isn't this the purpose of t
On Apr 4, 3:46 pm, Kevin Hoctor wrote:
> Now you sound like you're just trying to pick a fight. Both are open
> transactions but one lets you know that the bank has seen it as
> cleared. Why wouldn't you want to know which transactions came in from
> a direct download or an import versus th
> Here's a simplified example to clarify what I'm talking about:
> - I deposit a $1000 bonus check into my checking account, but mark it
> as bucket optional so it doesn't affect my cash flow (and artificially
> inflate my income graphs)
> - At this point my checking account balance is larger than
On Apr 4, 5:47 pm, The Watkinson Family wrote:
> While I do agree that there is little additional utility in the
> cleared flag, I think that your example is a little artificial. By
> depositing a bonus check and not assigning it to a bucket, you are
> creating for yourself a problem. If
