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19 <h1>Using the Budget feature
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21 <p>The Budget feature allows you to monitor your spending compared to a
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1:
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1: Select the accounts to exclude from the
42 <p>As default, all accounts are included into the budget.
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44 <p>Open the Manage Accounts dialog from either the mainwindow-menu:
45 Manage / Accounts, or from the Manage Accounts icon on the toolbar.
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47 <p>To exclude an account in the budget tick the 'exclude from the budget'
48 option for each account on that you would not like to include in the
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2: Set a budget amount
62 against each category
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64 <p>Open the budget dialog from either the mainwindow-menu: Manage /
65 Budget, or from the Budget icon on the toolbar
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67 <p>Enter a budget amount against each category that you want to include
68 in the budget. For example, select the category Cash Withdrawal and enter
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50.00 in the 'Budget for each month' text box to allow spending up to
70 50.00 in the category Cash Withdrawal each month.
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74 <p>See
<a href=
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3: View the budget report
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82 <p>Open the budget report window from either the mainwindow-menu: Reports /
83 Budget, or from the budget report icon on the toolbar.
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85 <p>The Decay column shows the difference between the amount spent and
86 the amount budgeted.
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90 <p>See the
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