Choose Budget Currency During Creation

enterfornone

I have a default currency in Quicken in Euros. Yet I also have accounts in US$ and BGN.
As currently, my running expenses are in BGN, therefore I'd like a budget in BGN

Yet Quicken does not let me choose the currency and creates a budget looking at the transactions in the default currency (Euro), therefore I end up with a useless empty budget. I know that I can change the currency afterward, but that does not affect the budget amounts itself and all actuals are compared against the budgeted in Euro.
The only option is to manually recreate all amounts in the budget, which of course completely defeats the purpose.

How can I create a useful budget in another currency? People do live abroad after all...

John_in_NC

Hi, enterfornone:

New Budgets default to the currency your Mac is set for in System Preferences. It sounds like your Mac is setup for Euros.

If you want to create a new budget (with values coming from your BGN accounts), then you will want to go into your Mac's System Preferences (Language and Region) and change the currency (usually under Advanced Options to BGN.)

Then, go back into Quicken and create your new Budget. This will default to BGN and pull the values from the respective BGN accounts.

When you are done, you can return your Mac's Language & Region currency to Euros.

John_in_NC

Hi, enterfornone:

New Budgets default to the currency your Mac is set for in System Preferences. It sounds like your Mac is setup for Euros.

If you want to create a new budget (with values coming from your BGN accounts), then you will want to go into your Mac's System Preferences (Language and Region) and change the currency (usually under Advanced Options to BGN.)

Then, go back into Quicken and create your new Budget. This will default to BGN and pull the values from the respective BGN accounts.

When you are done, you can return your Mac's Language & Region currency to Euros.

enterfornone

Hi, In the end, I had to change both the system preferences locale to Bulgaria AND the sidebar currency to BGN to succeed. Now the budget was created.
Thanks for the help.