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21 <p>This section is intended to give you a brief introduction to the basic
22 concepts and terminology you will need to understand in order to make
23 sense to the rest of the documentation.
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35 <a href=
"#accounts">Accounts
</a><br>
36 <a href=
"#assignment">Assignment
</a><br>
37 <a href=
"#budget">Budget
</a><br>
41 <a href=
"#categories">Categories
</a><br>
53 <a href=
"#payees">Payees
</a><br>
55 <a href=
"#remind">Remind
</a><br>
57 <a href=
"#scheduled">Scheduled
</a><br>
58 <a href=
"#split">Split
</a><br>
60 <a href=
"#tags">Tags
</a><br>
61 <a href=
"#template">Template
</a> <br>
62 <a href=
"#transactions">Transactions
</a> <br>
64 <a href=
"#wallet">Wallet
</a><br>
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78 <h2><a name=
"wallet" id=
"wallet"></a>Wallet
</h2>
80 <p>Wallet is the
1st level of data's. It represent a HomeBank file (.xhb)
<br>
81 Managing the few wallet properties is done in the
<a href=
82 "04wall.html">Properties dialog
</a>.
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84 <p class=
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89 <div class=
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91 <h2><a name=
"accounts" id=
"accounts"></a>Accounts
</h2>
93 <p>Accounts is the
2nd level of the data's. An account is a
94 division of the wallet, that will contains your financial
96 Managing the accounts is done in the
<a href=
"dlg-acco.html">Accounts
98 <p class=
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105 <h2><a name=
"transactions" id=
"transactions"></a>Transactions
</h2>
107 <p>Transactions is the last level of data's. A transaction
108 is a financial transaction, attached to its own account.
</p>
110 <p>In addition to the usual fields you can find in most accounting
111 application, HomeBank offers the following:
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114 <li>tags: like in the web, you can assign some tags to a
117 <li>payment: small image showing the payment mode
</li>
120 <li>info: miscellaneous data's for payment, like date, cheque number
123 <li>remind state: to keep track of debt
</li>
125 <li>vehicle-cost data's: memo field can contain data's for your vehicle
129 <p>Managing transactions is done in the
<a href=
"win-main.html">main
130 window
</a> or the
<a href=
"win-account.html">account window
</a>.
</p>
131 <p class=
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138 <h2><a name=
"split"></a>Split
</h2>
140 <p>Split is the ability to cut out the amount of a transaction to multiple categories.
</p>
142 <p>Managing split is done in the
<a href=
"dlg-spli.html">Split
143 dialog
</a> from the
<a href=
"dlg-tran.html">Transaction
146 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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152 <h2><a name=
"scheduled"></a>Scheduled
</h2>
154 <p>Scheduled is a transaction you can configure to be automatically inserted.
<br>
155 Typical such transactions are the one's occurring very often, for
156 example:
<em>Wage, Rent, Phone, Taxes, etc
</em>...
</p>
158 <p>Managing scheduled is done in the
<a href=
"dlg-arch.html">Scheduled/Template
160 Please have a look at
<a href=
"use-auto_addition.html">Using the Scheduled transaction feature
</a> for more details.
</p>
162 <p class=
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"#top">[top]
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167 <div class=
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169 <h2><a name=
"template"></a>Template
</h2>
171 <p>Template will enable to fast add manually some transactions without too much seizure,
172 most of the fields already populated with correct data
</p>
174 <p>Managing templates is done in the
<a href=
"dlg-arch.html">Scheduled/Template
177 <p>Templates can also be created from existing transactions from the
178 <a href=
"win-account.html">Account window
</a>.
<br>
179 Every template is available as a bookmark for fill purpose in the
<a href=
180 "dlg-tran.html">Transaction dialog
</a>.
</p>
182 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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190 <div class=
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192 <h2><a name=
"payees" id=
"payees"></a>Payees
</h2>
194 <p>A payee can optionally be set for each transaction to later perform
195 sorting, filtering and analysis. The payee identify people you give money
196 to, as like as those you receive money from.
<br>
197 Managing payees is done on the
<a href=
"dlg-paye.html">Payee dialog
</a>.
198 Payees are global to the wallet and are shared between all the
200 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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206 <h2><a name=
"categories" id=
"categories"></a>Categories
</h2>
208 <p>A category can optionally set for each transaction to later perform
209 sorting, filtering and analysis. The categories is another classification
210 model of your financial transactions.
<br>
211 Managing categories is done on the
<a href=
"dlg-cate.html">Categories
212 dialog
</a>. Categories are global to the wallet and are shared between
213 all the accounts.
</p>
215 <p>Please also note well that categories and subcategories are the same
216 from a HomeBank point of view, the subcategories are only to create a
217 hierarchy in category tree. This is especially important for the
<a href=
218 "04bud1.html">budget dialog
</a></p>
219 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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223 <div class=
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225 <h2><a name=
"tags" id=
"tags"></a>Tags
</h2>
227 <p>Some tags can optionally be set for each transaction to later perform
228 sorting, and analysis. The tags are most common to those yo can find in
229 the web, so it is words separated by space.
</p>
231 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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238 <h2><a name=
"assignment"></a>Assignment
</h2>
240 <p>Assigments are some rule to fastly set payee and/or category to the transactions
</p>
242 <p>Please refer to the
<a href=
"use-auto_assign.html">Using the Automatic assignment feature
</a>
243 for details on how using this feature.
</p>
245 <p class=
"top"><a href=
"#top">[top]
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252 <h2><a name=
"remind"></a>Remind
</h2>
254 <p>Remind is a special status for the transaction. The purpose here is to keep the transaction
255 into the list for later uses to remind you about a bill to pay, a bill to be payed for.
</p>
257 <p>Remind transaction are excluded from any computing: balance, reports, etc.
</p>
259 <p class=
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264 <div class=
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266 <h2><a name=
"budget" id=
"budget"></a>Budget
</h2>
268 <p>The budget is aimed towards reporting comparing actual values to
269 pre-defined budget values allocated to each expense/income category. The
270 budget report shows the difference (decay) between the budget and the
271 actual expense/income for each categories. You can select which accounts
272 are included in the budget report.
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274 <p><a href=
"dlg-budget.html">Using the Budget feature
</a> provides a quick
275 overview to get you started. For more in-depth details see the
<a href=
276 "04bud1.html">Budget dialog
</a> and the
<a href=
"dlg-bud2.html">Budget
279 <p>The budget is global to the wallet, so if you need to manage a
280 different budget each year, you can use csv import/export
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