Hello.
I am a new user of Acemoney (less than 2 months) and i have the following questions / problems:
1.- I am trying to track a loan payment following the same steps described in the following page: http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemone ... oans.shtml, but when i try to input the formula Interest("ACC NAME") there's a system error that says INVALID FORMAT NUMBER! Is there anything i'm doing wrong here? or am I missing any configuration?
2.- Every time when i print any report (at paper printer or digital pdf) that output report is always VERY SMALL, it appears to be zoomed / reduced to about 10-15% of its original size, so any report printing becomes totally useless (too small to read). I checked out the printer configurations inside and outside of Acemoney, but nothing worked, still keep the same problem. And it only happens with Acemoney, other softwares print well. Is there anything i can do to fix this?
Regards.
Configuring loans & printing reports
Re: Configuring loans & printing reports
What version of AceMoney are you using? The current version is 4.35.2.
Where exactly are you typing in the Interest() function? In a transaction, or in a scheduled bill?
AceMoney has had printer problems for a long time. I know in the 3.x version it did, anyway. It was supposed to be fixed in 4.x, but I don't know if it ever was (I never print anything from AceMoney). You may have to export the desired info to Excel or other spreadsheet app and print from there instead.
Where exactly are you typing in the Interest() function? In a transaction, or in a scheduled bill?
AceMoney has had printer problems for a long time. I know in the 3.x version it did, anyway. It was supposed to be fixed in 4.x, but I don't know if it ever was (I never print anything from AceMoney). You may have to export the desired info to Excel or other spreadsheet app and print from there instead.
Re: Configuring loans & printing reports
I'm having a different problem with the same loan tracking feature: When I try to split my principal and interest using the same function mentioned here, the functions calculate fine and appear in my budget report, but the total payment shows in my loan account. This is not supposed to happen. Only the principal portion of the payment is supposed to be accounted for in the loan account. The interest should only appear as an expense in my budget, withdrawn along with the principal from my checking account. Does anyone know how to make sure this happens, or does AceMoney not have this feature? It makes sense that it should--that's what loan account tracking is for. Thanks!
Re: Configuring loans & printing reports
I use splits to track my mortgage principle, interest, and escrow payments and have not had any problem with it.
I have separate "Mortgage" and "Escrow" accounts. I create a withdrawl from my checking account and use splits to move the money around. My monthly payment is 2511.21, where 746.30 goes to escrow, so my splits look like this:
a. Loan:Interest = Interest("Mortgage")
b. Transfer:Escrow = 746.30
c. Transfer:Mortgage = 1764.91 - Interest("Mortgage")
I have separate "Mortgage" and "Escrow" accounts. I create a withdrawl from my checking account and use splits to move the money around. My monthly payment is 2511.21, where 746.30 goes to escrow, so my splits look like this:
a. Loan:Interest = Interest("Mortgage")
b. Transfer:Escrow = 746.30
c. Transfer:Mortgage = 1764.91 - Interest("Mortgage")