On Sunday 30 June 2002 00:16, David P James wrote: > > I still don't like it much. Quicken accounts are "liquid" in > that they hold (hopefully) money. But categories do not; > they are where money goes or comes from but they do not in > themselves hold any money. That is, my chequing account > holds money; my car's gas expenditure category/account does > not. I understand the use of double entry but it is still > quite annoying. The numbers that show up in the totals > column at the right are almost completely meaningless for > anything orther than the "liquid" accounts.
I have this same problem with Quickbooks. It's really unhelpful that all these categories have "balances" that don't bear any relationship to reality. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]