
Available to Budget is Greater than Balances
I merged several categories into one category to clean up my budgeting a little bit. I did this by searching for the relevant categories, selected "all", then edited them changing the various categories into one. I then deleted the old categories.
All of the money I had budgeted showed up in various places, which I moved to "To Be Budgeted" . It all looked well, but now I am exactly $3 higher on my available to budget than the balance of my accounts. Nothing I do helps. I don't have any hidden categories or accounts with an budgeted values or account balances, they're al zero.
The other strange thing is I end up with $3 "To Be Budgeted" in NOV. When I assigned those $3 to categories, I get a ($3) for DEC. If I add $3 to DEC "To be Budgeted" I end up with $6 in NOV. And throughout all of this, it's still always exactly $3 higher than the account totals. I'm sure my act totals are correct, I somehow ended up with $3 more dollars in my available to budget than actual dollars I have, and can't figure out how to get rid of those $3 in budget dollars.
Anyone ever have this? I really, really, really don't want to start over, I have so much useful data going.
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I've got the same problem. My balance is £482, but YNAB says I have £578 to be budgeted. That's despite the fact that I still have future transactions set up for a further £140+. that doesn't make any sense!
Either I'm doing something wrong or YNAB doesn't reflect the fact that I've paid off an overdraft this month too!
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I've actually closed my savings account and removed the money from the budget, but despite having no red categories and having budgeted for the upcoming transactions I still show as having £579.34 'to be budgeted' compared to only £489 in my account.
I really don't know what to do about it. I don't want to randomly allocate some monies to categories just to clear them, but I really want to start the next month with a zero balance, and equal to my actual balance.
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I'm starting to think that this is something to do with how I pay off my credit card. YNAB calls it 'living on the float' or something similar.
I use my credit card for most expenditure in the month and then pay it off at the end of the month. However, my credit card statements are usually produced about a month in arrears. So I'm paying off September's bill at the start of November, but still accruing further expenditure in November that isn't reflected in the payment that leaves my account that month. Maybe that's why my account/TBB money doesn't tally.
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Silver Lion - I wanted to check in here! If you're still unsure about the numbers, one of our reps would be happy to take a look. If you write in to [email protected] and mention you posted this issue on the forum, we'll be able to send an official request to check out what might be going on here :)