Projected Balances - Use actual estimates rather than next amount for future Reminders
Several of my bills vary seasonally, including gas, lawn care, and others. When setting up Reminders, Quicken offers useful options to estimate amounts based on past payments or the year-ago amount.
But in the Projected Balances graph and elsewhere, Quicken uses the amount from the next instance of each Reminder rather than future reminders. Thus if my estimated gas bill for the next several months is $250, $200, $100, $50, $25, and $25, the Projected Balances currently assumes that all the future payments will be $250.
It might require a little more calculation, but the Projected Balances should use the actual estimated amounts rather than $250 each month.
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I voted for this, but if added, this should be optional.
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This would still be a valuable improvement to the Projected Balances calculation.
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Have you thought about using Time of Year for estimating your next payment amount due? That seems to work for seasonal variations, where payment is about the same as it was 12 months ago.
Your gas (heating) bill or the water bill are good examples.
Not so good examples would be paying someone for snow removal during 6 winter months and someone else for lawn care during the summer.0
