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- BUDGET
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-
- This facility allows you to analyse the active account and predict
- future transactions over a selected period. First an Analysis file
- must be created, this is done by selecting 'Build new file' from
- the right hand part of this form and then clicking over 'Build'. The
- Analysis file is then built up automatically - all accounts that the
- active account has transacted with over the past year are analysed and
- a set of 'standing order' type of transactions are compiled for each
- account that reflect the patterns of payments over the last
- year. Copies of standing orders are then added to this file and it is
- then displayed for you to examine. It is the same in format as the
- Standing Order display and manually entered known future transactions
- can be added in the same manner as normal standing orders are
- created (clicking over 'Create'). All entries can be edited and
- deleted, any 's/o' entries that are altered will re-appear as manual
- entries and will not affect the real s/o entries on the s/o file. Once
- created the file is automatically saved and can be updated at any time
- by selecting 'Update' from the right hand part of the form and then
- clicking over the Update button that appears.
-
- Each account can have it's own Analysis account file which is
- automatically selected when this form is opened.
-
- Once an Analysis file has been created then it can be viewed
- at any time by selecting 'View file'.
-
- To run a budget select a period on the left hand part of the form and
- select 'Use existing' on the right hand side. Clicking over the Budget
- button will then start the procedure which will:
-
- 1 - Copy any entries for the current month on the active account to
- the budget account.
-
- 2 - Run the Analysis file for the selected period, producing 'Auto'
- 'Manual' and 's/o' transactions.
-
- 3 - Display the Budget account - 'Fixed.Budget'.
-
- Notes:
-
- - the existing Fixed.Budget file will be overwritten when a new one is
- created.
-
- - the Fixed.Budget file can be used in graphs from the initial graph menu.
-
- - the Fixed.Budget file can be modified and added to whilst being displayed.
-
- - the Budget procedure is complex and takes a while to work, each time
- a transaction is computed a 'beep' will be heard!
-
- - there are 4 types of automatic analysis 'standing order' produced
- by the 'Build' routine:
-
- - Single copies. Single transactions are copied with a date 1 year
- on from the original date, used when not many transactions are
- on an account or where unusual transactions are found.
-
- - Average entries. Entries are averaged over the year to produce an
- average amount and period in days, used when lots of
- transactions. Transactions with amounts well in excess of the
- norm are copied as single copies.
-
- - Group entries. Groups of transactions are averaged as above but
- not over whole year. Used when transactions are sporadic but
- tend to be in groups over the year.
-
- - Regular month/2monthly. Amounts are averaged to produce a
- monthly/2monthly regular transaction. Used when a regular
- pattern of transactions is found.
-
- - prior to analysis transactions being computed entries occurring at
- less than 4 days intervals are summed to give a single
- transaction.
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