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Re: Accruals It's really up to personal preference, but if you set a savings goal for when it's due, YNAB will automatically do the math for you on how much you need to budget each month to meet the goal.…
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Re: Target Balance Goal Workflow (transferring budgeted amounts to secondary account.) @Cameron I think almost all of us come into YNAB thinking that we shouldn't have our savings account in view because you will want to spend it, but that's the beauty of the app.…
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Re: Target Balance Goal Workflow (transferring budgeted amounts to secondary account.) @nolesrule Nah, more like a savings umbrella to represents your savings account. And then each of your savings goals within that umbrella which will all add up to your savings account balance 🙂
- Emma Catherine
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Re: Target Balance Goal Workflow (transferring budgeted amounts to secondary account.) @nolesrule Maybe that didn't come across clear. i have full visability of each of the things I'm saving far as I have subs for each in my savings category (see image)
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- 7 mths ago
- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: Target Balance Goal Workflow (transferring budgeted amounts to secondary account.) To make sure you've moved the funds from checking to savings, you check the amount available on the far right corner of the savings category matches your savings account balance.…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 7 mths ago
- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: Target Balance Goal Workflow (transferring budgeted amounts to secondary account.) What you're wanting to do would be solved by having your savings account where it should be, in the budget section, not the tracked assets section. Then, to keep it out of your budget (as you want),…
- Emma Catherine
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- 7 mths ago
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Re: Negative Starting Balance & Credit Card Floats So this is textbook credit card float. You do not have the available money to pay off your entire card balance RIGHT NOW. So I would look into those help forums and documents
- Emma Catherine
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- 8 mths ago
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- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: The Official 2020 Debt Smackdown @Green Cleric I feel you on the birthday. Birthday's are my favorite holidays and I love spending them with the people who make me happy. Looks like this year it will just be me and my cat this…
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Re: Sort by last transaction inputed... and stay that way As far as I know it is sorted by time stamp of the transaction. So if you enter a transaction for this past Thursday and then one for this past Monday,…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Category Names @Jill McDevitt Love it! Seems like you have a good system and I love the emojis lol
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Re: Entering first month's budget @Brett M I was totally in your shoes at the beginning. I budgeted everything and I was like WTH?! Then I actually read the beginner's guides and everything fell into place.
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Saving for a goal and then spending @Gabby G Yeah I haven't found where I like to keep vacation yet lol. There's also no vacation in my near future so that's not a problem haha
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Saving for a goal and then spending @Gabby G That's a good thing to bring up actaully! So the wish farm wishes are purely wants. Whereas the gifts are "true expenses" ie things that will happen inevitably,…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Saving for a goal and then spending Yes it will directly come out of that category, no need for an additional one. You could do a test transaction to see where the money comes out as well 😊 Savings categories behave the same as…
- Emma Catherine
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Re: Budgeting with spouse The only experience I have in regards to budgeting with a spouse, is my parents, but I think they have a good system. They have a joint account (we will call it the family account) and then they…
- Emma Catherine
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Fresh nYNAB credit card balance @Slate Gray Cleric Maybe screenshots of each step you are doing would help clear up the confusion?
- Emma Catherine
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- 8 mths ago
- Credit Cards & Debt
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Re: 2-Way Roommate Reimbursements I, personally, would probably keep track of who owes who what in a spreadsheet instead of YNAB. But spreadsheets are my happy place. I'm sure someone more adept in the app will have a better answer…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: 2020: The Official YNAB Savings Challenge @Matthew 😂 it's the government! No saving money for you!
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Budget Planning with YNAB @Eric Poulin spreadsheets are my happy place, so I do as you do. I plan out months in advance in a spreadsheet, funding the big things first (bills, groceries,…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
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- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: Entering first month's budget @janineanne I'm with @Wiecked on this. WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK. Watch the how-to videos, read the help documents. If you start to get overwhelmed, read some journals of how people have turned their…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
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- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: 2020: The Official YNAB Savings Challenge Attempting to add a link to my journal and it's saying I no longer have access? I had access yesterday. @Veronica
- Emma Catherine
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Entering first month's budget @janineanne And the point of using "goals" is to keep you on track. You will get paid in the middle of the month, see that the available amount in "groceries" is yellow,…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: Entering first month's budget @janineanne If you want to budget, in total for the month, $1000 for groceries. Create a goal, to spend $1000 for the month. Then, budget what you think you will spend on groceries between now,…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
- Setting Up Your Budget
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Re: Category Names @RIP_MSMoney this has gotten a little off topic, as I was only asking for how people categorize their groups lol. My EF currently is $1000 as I am working on paying off debts.…
- Emma Catherine
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Category Names @Gold Robot I love the idea of having different categories for each savings account! I’m in the process of moving my emergency fund from my savings account to my checking account (because it’s not…
- Emma Catherine
- Civil engineer getting back on track
- emmacatherine
- 8 mths ago
- Tips & Tricks
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