Budget doesn't add up

Budget doesn't add up
chicalei Jan 30th, 2010 I just entered my budget amounts into another spreadsheet, and they came out to be $600 more than my budgeted amount. Alarm bells!;) When I set up my recent Gross Monthly Income budget, I put in my total budget amount, used the split function, then adjusted totals and categories to match my actual projected expenses. When I've done this in the past, any surplus from one category is added to the Savings budget. If I tried to budget beyond my pre-set limit, I received an error message. Somehow with my most recent budget though, the numbers don't add up. If I add up each individual category's allocated amount, it equals about $600 more than the Total Budget Amount. Is there an addition error, or a problem with the custom category totals? Thanks for your help!
support Feb 5th, 2010 This issue is fixed now. The issue was that in a Monthly Household Budget, if you had custom categories and edited it to have more money than allowed, it was letting you go ahead and then once the budget was out of balance, it stayed out of balance. So this would not have been an issue for everyone using the budgeting feature. The fix makes sure that your amounts are valid and shows error messages and resets the amounts if you enter amounts more than you should. Also, you will see a bold, red message as you view or edit an existing budget that is not balanced; so can correct these budgets. Thanks once again for letting us know about the issue and thank you so much for your patience!
chicalei Mar 31st, 2010 Hi again. Thanks for the fix. I went back in today to try to edit the budget,and now I'm getting a different error message that won't let me edit or create a new budget: "Error, your Budget 'Gross Monthly Budget 2010' was not saved. Name and Budget Amount are required to setup a Budget." It has a name, which I tried changing several times to see if it'd work, and a budget amount. Help?

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