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Tinkering Plus
Jan. 12th, 2013 10:25 amI'm still tinkering around the edges of my financial records program, mostly just formatting stuff, making data entry cleaner, though there's one more major capability I want to insert. Something else just popped up that needs fixing, though.
I have a TDA with MassMutual, and just received my quarterly statement. Unfortunately, the way they present the data isn't exactly compatible with my design. They give the initial and final values of each subaccount, which is OK, except that the change in value is a combination of deductions from my paycheck and changes in the value per unit of the stocks and bonds in the subaccount. My system needs to break out the second of these. As matters stand, I can get it by using the desktop calculator - but I devised the new program, among other things, precisely so that I wouldn't have to do that.
I'm going to have to create a new special-purpose form, and write code for the form itself and for its invocation from existing forms. I think I see how to do that, but it's going to be an effort.
:rolls up sleeves:
I have a TDA with MassMutual, and just received my quarterly statement. Unfortunately, the way they present the data isn't exactly compatible with my design. They give the initial and final values of each subaccount, which is OK, except that the change in value is a combination of deductions from my paycheck and changes in the value per unit of the stocks and bonds in the subaccount. My system needs to break out the second of these. As matters stand, I can get it by using the desktop calculator - but I devised the new program, among other things, precisely so that I wouldn't have to do that.
I'm going to have to create a new special-purpose form, and write code for the form itself and for its invocation from existing forms. I think I see how to do that, but it's going to be an effort.
:rolls up sleeves:
