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Spending Overview


Spending Overview gives you the big picture and lets you see where every penny of your money is going and coming from.

The items in the Edit menu allow you to change your totals to create hypothetical scenarios to help with finanical planning. Create a new scenario with Create New Scenario to enable these features.


Monthly Income

Displays your monthly income for each month of the year. The values in the Payments and Deposits columns can be edited while working in a scenario. The Payments column can be edited if Deposits is selected in Filter Options (Deposits will be modeled in the Category/Payee table). The Deposits column can be edited if Payments is selected in Filter Options (Payments will be modeled in the Category/Payee table).


Filter Options

Perform calculations on your ledger data using Filter Options. You can calculate based on Year, Categories or Payees, and Payments or Deposits. These options will be disabled after creating a scenario. If you want to enable them reset your totals back to there actual values from your ledger by selecting either Close Scenario or Reset Spending Overview.


Overall Account Details

Displays your account details for your ledger for the currently selected year or the current hypothetical year of a scenario. These values will update as you change the selected year in Filter Options and create and modify scenarios.


Current Year Details

Displays the totals for the currently selected year or the current hypothetical year of a scenario. These values will update as you change the selected year in Filter Options and create and modify scenarios.


Features

The items in Edit allow you to change your current spending or income totals and pretend they are something else. You can create new monthly totals, edit existing totals, and remove entire entries. You can also copy selected monthly totals to the next month, selected months, or the rest of the year. Your account details will update based on this new information. Making changes in Spending Overview will not alter your actual ledger data. These features turn Spending Overview into a sandbox for you to try different yearly scenarios.