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Forecast estimates your future income and expenses based on your past spending, upcoming transactions, reminders and budgets.
Forecast help you foresee when your account balance drops below a particular limit. This can help you prevent overdraft and minimum balance fees, or foresee whether you are going to overshoot the limit on your credit card. If you need to plan for a big upcoming expense (e.g., marriage, iPhone purchase), you can plan the appropriate time for making that expense based on your forecast.
The following factors are considered while projecting your account balances:
Pending and future-dated transactions
Reminders
Budgets (if you have a budget of $200 per month for Food, you will see a expense forecast of $200 per month on Food.)
APY / Interest rate on savings accounts
Forecast makes uses of many datasources, including both budgets and reminders. What you should use depends on your preference and the nature of the transaction.
Below is what we recommend, but feel free to do it the way that works best for you:
Use reminders for repeating, obligatory expenses that are approximately the same amount every period (e.g. utility bills, rent).
Use budgets for flexible, discretionary categories (e.g., eating out, grocery, shopping).
orecast is smart enough to reconcile reminders and budgets, so that neither of them get double counted or left out.
To ensure reminders are not double counted, please add the appropriate tag to the reminder. Reminders with tags are counted as part of the associated budget, and will not bet double counted.
For example, if you have a budget of 200/week for "Food", and a reminder for 50/week tagged as "Food".
Then your Forecast would include the following transactions:
50 / week for the reminder.
150 / week for what's leftover in the "Food" budget.
Forecast can estimate the monthly interest on your savings accounts based on the interest rate / APY for the account. Interest rate / APY can either be gathered during sync, or be manually entered by editing the account.
pacing.. had van die term nog niet gehoord. als dit met budetteren te maken heeft...
ROLLOVER
Rollover simply means carrying over any money available in your budget to the next period. Enabling Rollover for a budget allows you to budget money you have today to a category, but spend it a later date.
Let's say you have a budgeted $100 for a category this month but spent only $75. Then $25 rolls over and your available amount for the next month would be increased by $25. Similarly, if you spend $120, then the next month leaves you with $20 less available.
ENVELOPE BUDGETING
Envelope budgeting is a popular style of budgeting that lets you allocate your available money into different categories (virtual envelopes). Money is allocated (or budgeted) into separate categories as and when it's received. Any amount leftover in the envelope simply carries over (or rolls over) to the next period. At any time, you can see the "Available" amount of money in a budget to know how much money you can spend for that category.
Read more about envelope budgeting.
Rollover / Envelope budgets are great for categories that you want to save for over a period of time, or categories with uneven or sporadic spending.
Travel is typically a sporadic expenditure. You can budget a fixed amount (say $200) every month and simply check the available amount to see how much you have saved up at any time you plan to take a trip.
Utility bills are a variable expenditure. You can budget a fixed amount every month and allow any surplus/deficit to rollover.
If you want to keep money aside to make a big purchase later (say buy the latest iPhone worth $1000), you can start budgeting a small amount (say $20) every month. That way you won't allocate it to any other expense. At any time, you can check the available amount in the category to see if you have saved enough to make the purchase.
o Be Budgeted (TBB) is the amount of money you still have available to allocate to your budgets.
TBB = Money Available - Money Allocated
We support several ways to determine how much money is available to be allocated to your budgets:
Account balances =
Account balance at start of period
+ Income earned during current period
+ Transfers during current period
Income earned in current period
Income earned in previous period
Different allocation methods work better for different situations. Typically, if your primary goal is to spend less than you earn, you should pick one of the Income based allocation methods. If you follow Envelope or Zero-Based budgeting, you should allocate based your account balances.
Budgets only include transactions of the following types:
Expense
Refund
Paid for friend
Shared bill
Other transactions are not counted towards your spending, in Budgets as well as Insights.
Buxfer does not support excluding transactions or accounts from Insights/Budgets. Excluding data can sometimes cause confusion and not lead you to see a complete view of your finances.
If you wish that a certain transaction not be counted as an expense, please edit it and change it's type to a "Transfer". Transfers only affect your Net Worth, and are not counted as expenses for Insights and Budgets.