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Yearly renewal of budget allowance issue.

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    Yearly renewal of budget allowance issue.

    Hello.


    At my company we have a yearly clothing allowance for company branded items, so we need to track who has bought what and how much money they have left to spend. The tricky part is, every year your budget is "refreshed" If you are a "group B" employee, you get $200 to spend per year. If you started in December 2013, and spent all your budget on your first day, you would not be able to spend another $200 in January 2014. You would have to wait a full 365 days. So every employee has different start dates, and therefor, their budget is refreshed, or reset, at different times for different employees.

    Is there a way to have the "amount remaining" be reset to the "allotted amount" after one year has passed from the employees start date. And just to make things more complicated, you cannot "bank" your clothing budget. As in, if you didn't buy anything in your first year, you could not buy $400 after 2 years.


    Thanks!

    clothing report.xlsx

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    Re: Yearly renewal of budget allowance issue.

    My recommendation is as follows.

    Create a new table with columns
    Transaction Date
    Name
    Transaction details
    Amount

    Don't add blank rows in your table - you don't need them. When formatted as a table (like you have done), the table will automatically add formatting and formulae for you when you add a new row.
    Use the transaction column to add your purchase details (eg Polo, Hoodie etc) and then the value in the amount column.
    On the anniversary of the budget, simply add an entry "Budget allocation" in the transaction details cell and the amount of the budget as a negative number in the amount cell. The total of the budget and the spend will be the balance outstanding.

    add a pivot table to do the tracking of your budgets
    http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/dat...ivot_table.htm

    You can group the dates into years to ensure that you have the value reflected as needed.
    My approach to providing help is to help you to help yourself. So my answers won't always solve your problem, but hopefully you can learn enough to solve the problem yourself and be more self sufficient for the experience.

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    Re: Yearly renewal of budget allowance issue.

    Try this. If macros are enabled then it should auto run when the workbook is opened.

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