Larry, If it works for you, fantastic. That is all that matters. Quote of the nanosecond. . . Ever stop to think . . . and forget to start again? Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- rclark0276@xxxxxxxxxxx Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/----- Original Message ----- From: "LaMcAs" <lamcas17@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES
Hi guys Well I don't know where you live and don't know your Utility billing systems.Over here in the UK I have my Gas and Electric quarterly and water annually,but all paid by direct debit, so as the DD is paid I like to know how much is left and to check that the gas and electricity companies credits agree with my credits. This isn't anything that MT can't deal with, just because I use it to alevel that doesn't suit you, what I do might just be similar to what othersdo. I also have a cash account so any money I take out of a cashpoint goes into my pocket (transferred to Cash) and then I break my spending on that too.MT is a program for auditing your money, it does not say it implicity dealswith bank accounts, just because I break all my utilities and credit card accounts have their own sheets makes them just as much like a bank accountwith a transfer from my main bank account to my water, gas, electric or cash account - doesn't matter what way you look at it, they are accounts and thisis exactly what MT was designed to do - that's what is says on the box! Money Talks: Bank Account Management Software Money Talks is a completely accessible bank account management software package offering the user a simple and effective means of recording and maintaining accurate information for a variety of accounts. Can import and use electronic banking information to reconcile accounts, remember and repeat categories and recurring transactions, remember the last workspace used in the program, emboss or print the check register in a variety of formats, and print many types of bank checks. Can be used with a screen reader or with its own self-voicing feature.Now where in the above does it say that it isn't meant to do what I am usingit for? It says "simple and easy to use". HTH Larry & Elliot GD (Guide Dog) -----Original Message----- From: moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert C Sent: 27 April 2010 17:50 To: moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES Kerry,This is what I was thinking too. This is too complicated and MT was notdesigned for this level of accounting. Its not even an accounting program.Yet, I do just what you do, use the category fields to break down the credits and debits. If I created accounts for every bill I receive, I would have constant headaches trying to manage everything. LOL Quote of the nanosecond. . . No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid. Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- rclark0276@xxxxxxxxxxx Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/----- Original Message ----- From: "K. F. Ifill" <tsbf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:36 AM Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURESHi Larry, Seems to me that you have overly complicated you're accounting. You've setup 19 accounts, but the utility bills could have been logged as categorieswithin the various accounts you have paid. In order to see what you've paid, you could have generated a report. Fair enough you wouldn't see what's outstanding, but after seeing your overall payout, that would then be easy to subtract from the overall total.I even use the memo field to track such things maintaining a continued logof what the balance was at last payment and such. Sorry if this doesn' quite meet what you were looking for. Kerry -----Original Message----- From: moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LaMcAs Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:40 AM To: moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES Hello Robert Ok I have account set up for Gas, Electricity, Water and various credit cards so for example my Water account when I get the bill in I enter it here, then set up a transfer from my main bank account to transfer a paymentto Water every month. Then I can look at my Water account and see how muchis outstanding. I don't want to use 2 programs when the one will do the job! You can export Money Talks files to Excel using Export and then choose CSV. HTH Larry & Elliot GD (Guide Dog) -----Original Message----- From: moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:moneytalks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert C Sent: 26 April 2010 23:50 To: moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [moneytalks] Re: GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURES Just curious about the 19 accounts. You mentioned utilities so the question is, are you using MT to track data from ALL your expenses? Why not Excel for that? For MT to do that would be duplicating efforts and Excel is already quite good at it. MT was not designed to be quite so robust. If you wanted MT to work as a budget, well you have Excel. Maybe I am not understanding the goals you have in mind. I have been using MT for bit over 3 years and find it does just what is needed except itlacks a way to create budgets but I now have Excel so no need. That said,it would be cool to have a way to export this data to Excel. Quote of the nanosecond. . ."If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would bedead." --Johnny Carson Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- rclark0276@xxxxxxxxxxx Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/----- Original Message ----- From: "LaMcAs" <lamcas17@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <moneytalks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:54 PM Subject: [moneytalks] GRIPE & POSSIBLE FEATURESHello fellow MT users Ok first a gripe - why is it that APH know they are dealing with vision impaired people but still send a printed invoice on which the serial numberis shown. Not even a brailed note giving the serial number, and course ofnature would be to email those details to the client. When I placed my order I asked for this information to be emailed to me, and was promised this would happen, yet nothing. So now if someone needs to find their serial number they have to email Customer services to gain this information Ok gripe over! I have used two programs thus far to deal with this sort of information, being Money Matters, which is quite good but does not have any import/export features and the other being Microsoft Money, which has no accessibility features at all! So I was glad when I found Money Talks and think it is well worth it's money for what it does. I was however able to print off my MoneyMatters accounts and then use OCR to scan them in to Excel and MT acceptsQIF files so imported those in to MT and then exported them as csv's and carried out all the changes I need to make. Ok and yeah I probably have more transactions than a lot of you, I have all my bank and credit card, utilities etc from 1992 - my money tells me where I've been! lol I think the following features would be a great help to us Money Talks users and wondered what thoughts you had? (And APH of course!) ABILITY TO HAVE AN OPENING SCREEN SHOWING ALL ACCOUNTS AND CURRENT BALANCES Otherwise for transactions to be transferred to another account that account has also to be opened! In my case having to open 19 accounts ABILITY TO HAVE A SCREEN FOR REGULAR PAYMENTS It's hard work trying to remember you have to make , lets say 3 entries ona credit card account - one for the purchase/debit, you might get charged one amount for cash withdrawn interest, and another for purchase interest. Whereas having one screen showing you all your regular transactions you do not have to go in to each account to ensure you have set it up. ABILITY TO HAVE A SCREEN FOR CATEGORIES AND WITHIN THIS SUBCATEGORIES Within this the ability to completely delete those categories you do not want, they might be inapplicable in your country, ie IRA Contribution. And say for example I have a category called Insurance and then sub-categories for such things as home, auto, travel, health and pet. ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO CUT, COPY AND PASTE TO ANOTHER ACCOUNTTRANSFERS - TRANSFERS DO NOT HAVE A CATEGORY AS THE CATEGORY WOULD HAPPENIN THE ACCOUNT THE MONEY WASTRANSFERRED TO/FROM, SO HAVE A CATEGORY FOR "TRANSFER FROM" AND ONE FOR "TRANSFER TO" AND THEN SUB-CATEGORIES WOULD INCLUDE ACCOUNT NAMES ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO TRANSFER FROM & TRANSFER TO IN EACH ACCOUNT AND AUTO MARK IN OTHER ACCOUNT IF - MINUS) OR + (PLUS) However the AMOUNT can only be changed in the account in which the transferis initiated, though all other details can be changed apart from categoryfields, which would contain Transfer To in the initial account and Transfer From in the receiving account with the sub-category containing the account name. POSSIBILITY TO BE ABLE TO ALT+TAB BETWEEN ACCOUNTSABILITY TO HIGHLIGHT MORE THAN ONE TRANSACTION AND "TRANSFER" SELECTED TOOR FROM ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Well these are just my thoughts, but I really believe they would make things a lot simpler to organise in an already excellent product and surely it can only get better! HTH Larry & Elliot GD (Guide Dog)