Newbie migration issues
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Jan 29 00:08:18 EST 2005
Rod Engelsman <rodengelsman at ruraltel.net> writes:
> 1. Setting up my wife's student loan. What numbers is the Loan Druid
> expecting in various places? For instance, in the "Loan Information"
> dialog, where it says "Amount", is that the amount borrowed or the
> amount of the payment? Is it supposed to be positive or negative? And if
> that is the amount of the payment, then where does this thing get the
> amount of the principal from? No matter what combination of possible
> entries I make to this thing it comes up with absurd amortization schedules.
It's the original principal amount.
> 2. Setting up categories for taxes (personal income). I went through the
> business of assigning tax categories for everything, but the tax/TXF
> report shows all zero amounts. In some places it says that I have some
> code repeated (Error, Error, Will Robinson!). The situation isn't that
> complex; my wife works, I get VA education benefits, we have a couple of
> deductible categories (student loan interest and tuition) and we get Oil
> and Gas Royalties from about a half-dozen different companies (couple
> hundred bucks total a month for that). Is it a matter of how you name
> the accounts? Once again, the intuitive approach doesn't seem to work
> and I can't find any documentation on this.
Sorry, I've never used the tax categories, so I dont know. Could you
provide the exact error message you get, word-for-word? That might help
at least point to the code in question relaying the error.
-derek
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