Recorded Books Presents A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman Narrated by me, George Goudel. Author's Note On most of the places in this volume are real. Many ruins' canyon has had its name changed and its location tinkered with to protect its unvandalized cliff ruins. Chapter 1 The moon had risen just above the cliff behind her. Out on the packed sand at the wash-bottom, the shadow of the walker made a strange, elongated shape. Sometimes it suggested a heron, sometimes one of those stick-figure forms of an Anasazi pictograph. An animated pictograph, its arms moving rhythmically as the moon shadow drifted across the sand. Sometimes when the goat trail bent and put the walker's profile against the moon, the shadow became Kokopelli himself. The backpack formed the spirit's grotesque hump, the walking stick Kokopelli's crooked flute. Seen from above, the shadow would have made a Navajo believe that the great yay northern clans called water sprinkler had taken visible form. If an Anasazi had risen from his thousand-year grave in the trash heap under the cliff ruins here, he would have seen the humpback flute player, the rowdy garter fertility of his lost people. But the shadow was only the shape of Dr. Eleanor Friedman Bernal, blocking out the light of an October moon. Dr. Friedman Bernal rested now, sitting on a convenient rock, removing her backpack, rubbing her shoulders, letting the cold, high desert air evaporate the sweat that had soaked her shirt, reconsidering a long day. No one could have seen her. Of course they had seen her driving away from Chaco. The children are up in the grey dawn to catch their school bus, and the children would chat about it to their parents. In that tiny, isolated park-server society of a dozen adults and two children, everyone knew everything about everybody. There was absolutely no possibility of privacy. But she had done everything right. She had made the rounds of the permanent housing and checked with everyone on the digging team. She was driving into Farmington, she said. She had collected the outgoing mail to be dropped off at the Blanco Trading Post. She had jotted down the list of supplies people needed. She had told Maxie she had the Chaco fever needed to get away, see a movie, have a restaurant dinner, smell exhaust fumes, hear a different set of voices, make phone calls back to civilization on a telephone that would actually work. She would spend a night where she could hear the sounds of civilization, something besides the endless Chaco silence. Maxie was sympathetic. If Maxie suspected anything, she suspected Dr. Eleanor Friedman-Vernal was meeting Lehmann. That would have been fine with Eleanor Friedman-Vernal. The handle of the folding shovel she had strapped to her pack was pressing against her back. She stopped, shifted the weight, and adjusted the pack straps. Somewhere in the darkness up the canyon, she could hear the odd screeching call of a saw-wet owl, hunting nocturnal rodents. She glanced at her watch ten-eleven, changing to ten-twelve as she watched. Time enough. No one had seen her in bluff. She was sure of that. She had called from Shiprock, just to make doubly sure that no one was using Bo Arnold's old house out on the highway. No one had answered. The house was dark when she'd arrived, and she'd left it that way, finding the key under the flower-box where Bo always left it. She'd done her borrowing carefully, disturbing nothing. When she put it back, Bo would never guess it had been missing. Not that it would matter. Bo was a biologist, scraping out a living as a part-timer with the Bureau of Land Management, while he finished his dissertation on desert lichens or whatever it was he was studying. He hadn't given a damn about anything else when she'd known him at Madison, and he didn't know. She yawned, stretched. Each with her backpack, decided to rest a moment longer. She'd been up about nineteen hours. She had maybe two more to go before she reached the site. Then she'd roll out the sleeping bag, and not get out of it until she was rested. No hurry now. She thought about layman. Big. Ugly. Smart. Great. Sexy. Layman was coming. She'd whine him and dine him, and show him what she had. And he would have to be impressed. He'd have to agree she'd proved her case. That wasn't necessary for publication, his approval, but for some reason it was necessary to hear. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Well yesterday did not go as planned for the Bemidji softball team. Luckily they had a chance to get it right today. They had a rematch with Sartel St. Stephen. Winner take all a victory sending the Lumberjacks to state for the first time in school history. And the matchup it started off like deja vu down one to nothing in the first but with the bases loaded Maddie Hansen able to force the ground out to escape the inning relatively unharmed. In the second two outs for Samantha Adlin the long fly ball looks like an out but it's dropped a run scores in two batters later. Evette Morgan makes the savers pay for their mistake. A three run home run gives Bemidji the four to one lead. In the fourth inning jacks up four to two and Mastanik with the bases loaded. Jacks won the center some tricky win confuses the centerfielder. Two run score it's six to two. In the fifth Bemidji adding some insurance runs. Evette Morgan almost gets her second homer of the day. She'll settle for a double at the wall. Onik Atakinen able to slide in just safely and there would be no comeback today. Maddie Hansen going the distance the game is over a historic day. Bemidji they win their first section title make it to state for the first time in school history. On eleven to two win a blowout win avenging their loss from yesterday and showing the mental toughness to fight out of an early tough situation to make history. We just kept telling ourselves to stay calm and we we have confidence in ourself and we yesterday we talked about how we weren't going to get all freaked out just like we did yesterday and I think that helped a lot too. We had a big talk that I started as a team to have a lot of confidence coming in this game and just have fun. Mental toughness it has come throughout the years you really got to be strong as a pitcher. Feels very good very good it's just I'm so proud of the girls just to finally come out you know play that I know the way that I know they can. We've been waiting for this and we all knew we could get here sooner or later and just the grind all season not we were inside for ever it felt like and we were just working so hard and it feels so amazing to finally get here. This has got to be a huge huge moment for for the girls I know they're ecstatic I know there were some very happy tears shed. It's it's indescribable I just I feel like I don't have words for it because it's such like a great feeling and it's one of the best ones that I've had in my life. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Jim Sonis of FanDuel who's here to break down week 16 from a DFS perspective. What's happening, Jim? Yeah, it's a pretty interesting slate going on here, Greg, because we've got a couple of games that mean quite a bit, but most of those games are not on the main slate. So we're kind of trying to dig here to try to find teams with motivation and try to win in week 16, which is not the easiest task by any means, but still I think some pretty fun plays on the board. So I'm all right, how you doing? I'm doing well, man. We got championships to play for. We have a lot of money to play for this weekend and I need your help, so let's break it down. Let's begin with a team that has everything to play for. It's a playoff game this week between Dallas and Philly, and you, not surprisingly, are in on Dak Prescott and pairing them up with Michael Gallup. I struggled last week for Michael Gallup, but facing the Philly secondary, no one loses to the Philly secondary. Philly, Philly, indeed, Dak Prescott. Michael Gallup, your first stack this week. Yeah, right before we started recording, there was a report that apparently Dak Prescott has a messed up shoulder. So keep an eye on that throughout this week. If he's able to get into full practice on Friday, I think it is full steam ahead with this stack because he apparently played through that shoulder injury the entire second half on Sunday and didn't look that bad. So right now I feel pretty good about Dak, but it's worth keeping an eye on as week goes along. And this is a team, like you said, that has a lot on the line. They're facing the Philadelphia Eagles and that secondary has gotten torched pretty much all year long. Now the question here is do you go with Michael Gallup or do you go Amari Cooper? And I love Amari Cooper. He is an amazing talent. I think he's in a very good spot this week as well, but Michael Gallup is cheaper. He has $6,500. He leads the team in targets and air yards since their buy week. And he's $6,500 against this Eagles defense. So if I'm rolling out multiple tournament lines with Dak Prescott, I am going to make sure I get some Amari Cooper because the Cooper always, I think among all the receivers and the slate, is gonna be among the top guys from an upside perspective. Michael Gallup is a little bit cheaper. He has $6,500, helps offset the salary of Dak Prescott at least a little bit. And I think that's pretty attractive. Dak is $8,000. I want my quarterbacks to be in gains where there's something in the line that that is the case with Dak here. So I think that it makes a lot of sense to pair these two together in a game where they desperately need a win. Again, keep an eye on the injury report throughout this week. Make sure that Dak's shoulder is okay. But if it is, I think that he is arguably one of the best quarterbacks on this slate. And I want to pair him most often with Michael Gallup. Absolutely. As long as Dak Prescott's shoulder is okay. Pairing of Michael Gallup, one of his favorite receivers, obviously all season long, makes plenty of sense. He gets a beat up and brutal Eagle Secondary. Good spot here on Sunday for Dallas to get the job done. Up next, we go to Seattle, who was also playing for something here this week, trying to get that number one overall seed potentially in the NFC. Chris Carson, the Seattle defense, has been one of your favorite pairings this season. How come you're going back to the well against Arizona? Yeah, I definitely think you can go with the Seahawks passing game here. If you expect Collin Murray to put points in the board, which he could because he's been good against some good defense this year, specifically San Francisco and Seattle is a step below that. So there is a path to using the Seahawks passing offense, but there is a lot of safety in this Seahawks rushing offense because we know what they want to do. They want to run the football and they should be able to on Sunday. They are double digit favorites. The Cardinals are a bottom 10 team against the Rush this year based on number fires metrics. They're in 20th there. So bottom 12 team. I mean they should be able to run the ball efficiently and Chris Carson with no Rashad Penney is basically a different player. Last week, 76% of the snaps, he had 24 carries along with two targets and that workload goes up for Chris Carson whenever there is no Rashad Penney who will obviously not be playing this week yet. He is $8,200. I think that when you bake in the fact that Rashad Penney will not play, that's a very palatable salary for Chris Carson. The Seahawks defense is $4,400 and like I said, they haven't been great this year. They're ranked 14th against the pass, 13th overall based on number fires metrics. They've been very average and they have a lot of injuries right now but what we get here is them as 10 point favorites against a team that wants to throw the football and Kyler Murray I think his biggest fault this year as a quarterback has been a willingness to accept sacks behind a bad offensive line. So I think the upside for the Seahawks defense there, they've got a pretty good floor as well and if they do well, Chris Carson should do well also. So a good correlation here between Chris Carson and his defense and I think this is the safest way for getting exposure to the Seahawks team. For Arizona, the question becomes can they put points on the board? Russell Wilson is in a fantastic matchup here this week against the secondary for Arizona that hasn't been good either but if you don't think Arizona can hang in the game, we once again go back to Seattle's defense and we go back to Chris Carson. Rashad Penney is out which means Carson's gonna do what he does. He's 20 carries at least, 100 yards at least, one touchdown at least. Chris Carson set to dominate once again against Arizona on Sunday. Our next stack, Jim, brings us to the Miami Dolphins, a team that's played hard despite their record this year. We went to them last week, of course, against the New York Giants, didn't work out all too well but now facing Cincinnati, it fits Patrick and you're pairing them with your boy, a guy that's made a lot of money here over the last couple of weeks. Savante Parker, he's extended the contract, he's gotten paid and now let's see if he can get us paid this weekend. Yeah, he came back into a really good role last week, he was coming out of that concussion. You know, we didn't know early in the week if he was going to play but he did play and he played really well in that game with seven targets and a lot of those targets were downfield. Right, that's Patrick, he's very happy to feed his guys downfield and he's been feeding Devante Parker consistently since Preston Williams got hurt. If you exclude that game where Devante Parker left early with the concussion in the game since Preston Williams' injury, Parker has 25% of the overall targets which is very good but he also has 50% of the deep targets which is just a massive number especially for a guy on a team where they will throw deep and who has been good from a production perspective this year and he's been pulling in those deep targets as well and Parker because I don't think many people used him coming off that concussion, his salary has come back down to $6,900. That is a really good number for someone who has been as good as he has been this year and is getting the usage that Parker has gotten. Ryan Fitzpatrick, $7,400. He is kind of expensive given that there are other more viable quarterbacks who are not that far apart but to Fitzpatrick's credit, he's been very good recently. He has at least 30 rushing yards in three of the past four games and we've seen him chuck it deep and that is good for a quarterback as well. So I have a little bit of concern here given the Bengals defense has showed some life recently and we'll talk more about that in the next stack but I still think that it's justifiable to go at the Dolphins in tournaments. I think that Parker is a cash game option. I don't think Fitzpatrick is but I think that both these guys are options for cash games. This game features two defenses that are certainly not great even though the Bengals have been improving and it could shoot out. We've seen both these teams at least trying of late. So I am very okay with going at the Dolphins as long as it is not in a cash game setting because again, the Bengals defense has been a little bit more kicky recently. So I am okay with avoiding them in cash games. For tournaments, I think that Fitzpatrick and Parker do make a lot of sense. Vance Parker did step back into that monster role as Ryan Fitzpatrick's number one wide receiver. He's shown how talented he truly is this year all season long with Miami. Ryan Fitzpatrick will go to his favorite wide receiver repetitively or we hope on Sunday. So it's a good stack in a game where neither defense is really good which is why we also wanna go to Cincinnati and in particular Joe Mixing. Joe Mixing's actually been really good over the past month and we know the offensive line struggles. We know that Cincinnati's rarely in games but their defense, they've also kind of stepped up. Not saying they're good, but they've stepped up enough that Joe Mixing's been able to really help us fantasy owners but you also like their defense here. Well, you like Ryan Fitzpatrick and Devonte Parker and the Bengals defense. How does that work? That is the nature of Ryan Fitzpatrick. He can be, he can give it and he can take it the way in a hurry. And this Bengals defense as we alluded to before has been kind of interesting recently. I've had a lot of players facing them in DFS like William Darnold, Baker Mayfield and a lot of those guys have underperformed. Over the past five games, this defense has allowed 17, 16, 6, 21 and 28 points over their past five games. So from a point perspective, they've been good. Now they faced a lot of bad offenses in that time but Ryan Fitzpatrick can occasionally turn into a pumpkin as well. So I think that it's still worth noting that they've been pretty good and they are $3,800 against a quarterback who will occasionally turn the ball over. So I think that's why the Bengals defense is in play even while saying that I could also be okay with the Miami Dolphins offense. Joe Nixon shouldn't be as hard of a sell. He is $7,800 but his snap rate spiked back in week 10 when they turned things over to Ryan Finley. And since that time, Nixon has been awesome. He has averaged 21.7 carries and 2.8 targets per game. His efficiency has increased since Courtney Glenn came back to this team back in week 12. It's a four game sample. Nixon has actually been a very good rusher in those four games and he's gotten massive volume. When you put that up against the Dolphins defense that has been terrible all year long, their offense has been good, but the defense has definitely not taken a step forward. I think that that's really interesting. Joe Nixon is a cash game play at $7,800.  I believe that they're slight underdogs. I think they're a one point dog last time I looked and that's not what we want from a defense. But there is a path to a good game from this defense. So I like them for tournaments and I like Nixon for tournaments but I think he is also very much in play for cash games as well. In cash games, Nixon should get the job done but like you said, with Bangles defense, Ryan Fitzpatrick give it and take it. It's basically James Winston before he was James Winston. Ryan Fitzpatrick's been doing this a long time. You know what you're getting from Ryan Fitzpatrick? A gunslinging wheel and dealing son of a gun. That is Ryan Fitzpatrick and that's why we like him in DFS and the Bangles defense as well. Up next, we go to Atlanta and Devonte Freeman paired with the Falcons defense. Falcons are in a good spot and if you think they're going to dominate, well, put Devonte Freeman in there. You go to the Falcons defense just like we're doing with Cincinnati, just like we're doing with Seattle here, Jim. Yeah, they really are in a good spot. As you mentioned, it's actually been getting better too because this game opened with a six and a half point spread. It is now at seven points on Fandal's sports book and I don't think that's wrong. I don't think that's wrong by any means. This Falcons team, despite being out of the playoff hunt, has played hard recently and this Jaguars team outside of that late stretch against Oakland really has not. So I think it makes sense that they are heavy favorites here and that bodes well for Devonte Freeman Devonte Freeman did not do much in that game against San Francisco. So this is kind of gone overlooked but he did get a role change in week number 15. In that game Devonte Freeman played 79% of the snaps. That was his second highest mark of the entire season. If we look at Devonte Freeman since coming back from his ankle injury or from his injury, his foot injury, he's out at 15.3 carries and 4.0 targets per game. His snap rate has been at least 66.7% in all of those games as well and that's good when he's $6,200 at home as a seven point favorite against a defense that has kind of given up hope. They ranked 30th against the rush right now based on number fire schedule, adjusted metrics. So great matchup at home, pretty big favorite, not a bad role. I kind of think Devonte Freeman makes a lot of sense and if Devonte Freeman does well this defense should do well also. They've had some blips on the radar but I think overall they've definitely carried over most of the gains that they made coming out of their buy with that change in the play callers on the defensive side of things. They've still been pretty good as we saw against that 49ers offense. So I think even though the Falcons are $4,400, I am still interested in them at home against Jacksonville. Gardner-Minshew doesn't tend to throw a deep ball that often that should increase the floor for this defense and we also know that the Jaguars can occasionally give up on games and nail it in and turn the ball over too. So I think that this Terry makes a lot of sense I think that Freeman is a more attractive part of this one but if he does well, the defense should do well too. So I think it makes sense to pair them together in tournaments as well. There you go, the options for this stack. Endless cash games, tournaments, do what you gotta do. Devonte Freeman and the Falcons in a good spot like Jim mentioned with a spread according to the Fandal Sportsbook has gone up over the last couple of days. The Falcons have played better having the big win in San Francisco last week. You know, this may be the end of the Dan Quinn era but his team is playing hard for him and that includes Devonte Freeman who even found the end zone a couple of weeks back. How about that? Devonte Freeman and the Falcons defense, a fine stack choice on Sunday. Our final stack is a game that, well, doesn't really mean much about anything. It's Denver and the Detroit Lions and you're going with the home team. It's Drew Locke, pair with his buddy, Cortland Sutton. It didn't work in the snow in Kansas City. Why will it work now at home against Detroit? Because they're at home against Detroit. I always wanna go at the Detroit Lions defense with the way they played, especially since the Quandre digs trade. Defense has been really bad. They now ranked 26th against the pass for the full season based on number of fires metrics and yeah, Drew Locke was not good against Kansas City and I'm not gonna blame that on the snow because Patrick Mahomes played really well in that game. Drew Locke does not get a pass because of the snow there but he can get a pass because of the matchup. The Chiefs actually ranked fifth against the passes year based on number of fires metrics whereas again, the Lions are 26. So you put Locke at home against a bad pass defense and good things can happen. He tore up the Texans. The Texans have been a better pass defense this year than the Lions. They ranked 22nd against the pass. So I think that Drew Locke, his efficiency is not gonna be where it was, those first two games against the Chargers and the Texans, but it doesn't have to be. He has still been an improvement over Brandon Allen and Joe Flacco, which is great for Cortland Sutton. He has $7,100. He has had 70 or more receiving yards in two of Locke's three starts so far this year despite facing Casey Hayward in one of those games which makes me feel better about him seeing Darius Slay this weekend. Even in that game against Hayward, Sutton was really good. He had a couple of touchdowns there and the three games Locke has started. We had see Sutton with 24% of the team's overall targets and 33% of the deep targets. So he's getting a lot of work. He's getting high leverage work. He is converting that into yardage. I think that bodes well for him here at $7,100 in a spot where I wouldn't expect all that many people to go his way given how bad the total is for this game. I think that should help us get Drew Locke and Cortland Sutton at a bit lower ownership and given what they showed those first two games I am inclined to take advantage of that. Locke has been a definitive upgrade over the other guys a quarterback here for the Broncos. That's good for Sutton, but it's also good for Drew Locke in a plus matchup at home. So disappointing output last week can't make too many excuses without an outside of the matchup but it's a much better spot this time and I wanna go back to Locke and Sutton with that situation being a lot better. The weather's certainly gonna be better. The defense certainly gonna be worse. That's what's good for Denver and Drew Locke and Cortland Sutton. Hopefully taking advantage of Detroit's week, week secondary, we've taken advantage of them before. We're in a good spot here this week and you're right, not a lot of people are gonna go there. So in the tournament, it's sneaky and hopefully productive for you in the game. Not a lot of people are going to be targeting. Drew Locke and Cortland Sutton are final stack here of the week. Not a final time we're talking DFS. We're gonna do it again tomorrow with some of the undervalued and overlooked players for this week. Wanna get a preview here, Jim? Yeah, it's gonna be interesting for sure but I think that there is a very interesting wide receiver in Christian Kirk who has not been that kind to us recently but Greg, we're gonna go back to the well tomorrow. Why not give it one more try once again? Why not one more time with Christian Kirk? For Jimmy Saunders, I am Greg Sussman. Thanks so much for watching the Fandal Hurry Up. Have a great night and we'll see you back here tomorrow.


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Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is Chris Pipe. My friends call me Banksy. I'm back again, guys. Today I got a couple things I wanna talk to you about. The first thing I wanna talk to you about is one of my previous videos. I mentioned that I'll be giving away a custom intro to somebody who left a comment and we would randomly select a winner. Well, I've changed my mind and I've randomly selected three winners because I can. All right guys, for those of you that don't know how it worked, in the past I made a video. I said, hey, leave a comment. Let me know what you're looking for and from all those comments we would randomly select a winner. Well, I've selected three, super easy. All you gotta do is have heartbeat installed and I just go in and pick, click, pick a winner and I clicked it three times and I got three winners, randomly selected, like I said, twice. So guys, for those of you that wanna know who has won, here you go. Here are your three winners. 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QuickBooks Online 2023, budgeted income statement reports. Get ready to start moving on up with QuickBooks Online 2023. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file. We started up in a prior presentation using the 30-day free trial. We also have open the free QuickBooks Online sample company. You can open the two at the same time by using support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Incognito or another browser. If you want to open Incognito, if you're using Google Chrome, select the three dots, open Incognito, type into the search engine, QuickBooks Online, test drive. We're going to be looking at the accounting view, the view that Get Great Guitars is in, and the business view, the view the sample company is in to toggle between the two views. You can go to the cog up top and change the view down below. Duplicating some tabs to put reports in like we do every time. Right click on the tab up top to do so and duplicate. Right click in the duplicated tab and duplicate. Back to the tab in the middle as the tab to the right is thinking reports on the left. We want the balance sheet, one of the major financial statements as we well know. Note that if you're in the business view, by the way over here in the sample company, the reports are located in the business overview and then the reports back to the accounting view tab and to the right reports on the left, opening the other major financial, that being the profit and loss, the PNL, the income statement, closing the hand boogie, changing that range in from 010123 to 022823, hitting the drop down to see a month by month of side by side and running it to refresh it. There's Jan, there's Feb, there's the total here to date Jan Feb, tab to the middle and close up the boogie, scrolling up top and going from 010123 to 022823 and hitting the drop down for the month by month of side by side, running it to refresh it. I was running and there it is. That's the setup process that we do every time. We've been working on the budgeting and putting the data input for the budget, quick recap on the budget. Remember that the budget is not something that we typically think of as part of the accounting process because the accounting process is past data that we're putting into the system to create the financial statements and work with the people we're doing business with customers, vendors and employees, typically the data input being from these forms. The budget is future data. We need projections out into the future. So clearly we need accounting knowledge to do that because it's still going to be in the format of financial statements, but we also have to take in other information management information, market information and so on so that we can make appropriate estimations about what's going to be different from the past to the future due to more advertising, due to hiring more or less people, due to putting more money into property, plants and equipment or something like that. So the strategy that we would use is to take our income statement possibly and export it in some way, shape or form to excel so that we can have that as the starting point from the past data and then use that to make a budget taking into consideration all these other factors. Once we have that created, then I would import it back into QuickBooks so that we can run QuickBooks reports such as the budget versus actual reports. That's what the QuickBooks system does well. So that's what we did in prior presentation. If I go to the first tab, we entered the budget which you could find in the cog dropdown. We went to the budget over here, budgeting and we entered this budget. You can have multiple budgets. If we edit the budget, we can see our information here. So this is what we put into the system and we were a little bit off down below in terms of the budget that we had in Excel. So now we're going to make some check our numbers and make an adjustment. So in Excel, we had the end result. This is probably the first number to check 125, 965 because that will encompass. If that one's correct, you're pretty solid that everything's correct. It was off over here if I scroll down a bit so I could see it. And so you could go through your budget here and find it but notice it's a little difficult to do that because you don't have all the subcategories or at least and you have all these other accounts that are kind of muddying up the system. So I would actually just generate a budget now and then find the difference and then I'm going to come back in here and make the change. So I'm going to go to the tab to the right, right click on it, duplicate. Now that we have a budget in place, we can just find our budget right where we find all the other reports that's in the reports on the left hand side. And then we're going to type in budget. I just type in budget. That's how I typically do it. And you've got your budget overview and your budget versus actual. Those are the main two budget reports. Let's first take a look at the budget overview, which I don't think is quite as useful in practice because it's just going to give you a recap of what we already had in Excel, but it'll be a good checking format for us. I think what QuickBooks does quite well of course is the budget versus actual report. Although this report's nice too because you can run it with different date ranges and whatnot up top. So that's nice. But in the case before we get into that, let's go down here and say, okay, what is off in our budget? So I know that this end result is off. So I could say, okay, that number's off. I could check each of the totals by month now. And I could say, okay, well, I got 1037-3265. So if I go back over here, 1038, it's a dollar. That's fine. That's off. This one's off. So it starts to get out of whack right in February. And then I could check line by line up top. If I could go, okay, then I can add up, say my income accounts up top and they should add up to 34606. And then I could go back on over here and say, okay, 34606. And I could check basically line by line 22, 22 there. And then my business expenses, if I add them up, go down to right there, I think, because these are the other expenses, 10,182. So if I go down, you know, you can add them up thusly. Actually, I messed that one up. But in any case, that's the strategy I would take. But I could see where the problem is. If I go through down here, because I could see, okay, this one down here, I increased the interest in this category, or I decreased it over time. So it was at the 334, the 318. And here I had 334, and I kept it constant. So I believe that's going to be my difference. So I'm just going to go back and change this one line item. Once I discover that, going to go back to the first tab, scroll all the way down to the bottom. And let's say we want to change down here. There it is. This is the line I want. So it's going to be another one of those items where I got to do it line by line, because I can't really copy it across. So I'll enter that here. And then we'll see the change. Okay, so there we've entered the change. I'm going to click off of it. So these are the new numbers I put into place. Let's go ahead and save it. I'm going to go back to my report now. I'm going to run it again and see if it refreshes down here, as we would expect it to do. It has done so. So that's how you can adjust your budget report.  So if I go back on over $125,961, it's off by rounding, most likely. So I'm pretty much okay with that. I'm not going to go into too much detail to kind of double check it more than that, because it's a practice problem. So we've got the budget in place. That's the general technique. Now that we've got these two budget reports now, so clearly when we first put the budget in place, then we're not going to have any actual numbers. So this is probably the budget that we would first kind of present. And we can format it in different ways. We can go back up top and we can change the date ranges up top to run it for different periods. So you might say, I'm going to run it, you know, from 01, 01, 2, 3 to 03, 31, 2, 3 for like the first quarter, and run the report that way. Notice you don't have anywhere near the kind of formatting capabilities you have with a normal income statement, because you'll see that you have different options. If you go to an income statement here, you've got the month by month and so on breakout. And you can't do the comparative type of reports as well, because it's just a budget. So the only comparative report that we have is a whole different report, which is budget versus actual. That's why I say that if you were to, for example, create this budget, which you can just from the prior year data, we saw that you can just kind of easily do that. Then of course, as time passes, you can make a budget versus actual, your budget constructed from the prior year data. But if you were in, if you were in QuickBooks, you could just do a comparison to the prior year data using, using just a comparative report analysis, right? You can compare to the prior period and the prior year. So there's, the budget isn't adding a whole lot unless you construct the budget, of course, to be something more than just the prior year data. That's usually the kind of like the baseline. So we can, we can build our budgets thusly. Now we've put the first two months of the budget in place and have actual data for it as well. So let's hit the right click on the tab again and duplicate and let's look at the budget versus actual report, which is a great report as time is passing to see what is happening and your comparative comparison to what you expected to happen. So we're going to say budget versus actual budget versus actual. And so there we have that. And so now we've, this is a quite long report if we're running it for the entire year, because it's getting our budget versus the actual for each month of the year. Now we only have two months that we have actual data in it. January, we've got the actual versus the budget and the overview. And then we've got February. And then of course, we had a little bit of data in March. And then in April, we don't have any actual data. So for us, as we run this, it would make sense for us to run it for the first two months possibly. So we're going from 01, 01, 23 to 02, 28, 23. And then we could run it. And that's our standard report. We're going to pull out the trustee calculator just to see some calculations here. So now we've got January data, February, and then it gives us the total. This is similar if we were to run an income statement, kind of like on a, on a, on a side by on a month by month basis, as we did here. So now you've got January, February, and then the total year to date. So that's how the, the budget is set up. So if we do a comparison here, we've got the actual, we've got the budget. And then we've got the over budget. So I'm going to take the five, three, eight, five, seven minus the three, four, six, so six. And that's what we're coming up with the 19 to 51, which of course is the budget, which is the over budget. And then we've got the percent of the budget, the percent of the budget is taking the 53, 53, eight, five, seven divided by the budgeted amount three, four, six, so six. So the actual amount, if I move the decimal two places over about 155.63% of the budget because the actual was over the budget. And then you can do that for the expenses and so on, on down below as well. So you have a couple other options up top. We of course have the date range options that we looked at. We don't have the same kind of comparative options once again, because this is the comparative report comparing the budget, which we manually input versus the actual, which is what we built when we entered the data input for past data two months in our example problem, having been passed at this point in time, you've got the same kind of thing where you have the active cells, rows versus all or zero and so on. And then we've got these items where you can see the default is to have the over budget and the percent of budget. But you can also have, you might choose instead of these two to show it this way. So this is kind of a matter of preference. So now you've got the amount remaining. So so and so now you've got a negative number here for the amount remaining. So in other words, if I was to hit this again, and I was to say over budget so we can see both of them. So you've got the amount remaining. Let's see, run it running. So now you've got the over budget amount remaining. So you can see it either way you want to you want to see it. And then over here, we've got the remaining amount versus if I hit both of them. These are just basically taking the inverse kind of relationship here. So let's run this again. So now you've got the percent of budget and the amount remaining. So let's pull off the trusty calculator and just take a look at this. If we scroll down, we've got the actual, the budget, the over budget and the amount remaining are the same number. It's just the difference between the actual and the budget. It's just which ones are you subtracting from which one, making it negative or positive. The percent of budget. Let's take a look at this one, which is just basically looking at, I'm looking at the total income as just going to take the actual, which is over the budget right now. So five, three, eight, five, seven divided by the budget, which is three, four, six, so six. And that's where we get this, this number that's over, you know, 100%, which is the 155.63 because the actual is higher than the budget. The amount remaining, the percent remaining is taking the difference. So we'll take the remaining item, which is negative because the actual was over the budget. So we don't have anything remaining from the budget side of things. And you, this might feel a little bit different when we do incomes accounts versus expense accounts, but we're going to say, all right, so this is going to be the difference of the 19251 divided by the budget of three, four, six, so six, moving the decimal two places over, there's our 55.63 about and so on. So that's the general idea. So notice that you probably wouldn't have both of these items, you know, the over budget and the amount remaining since they are somewhat redundant. And you probably wouldn't want both of these percentage items as well, choosing one line or the other. The default as we saw is to have these top ones over budget and percent of budget. Let's see the other side just having the bottom two and run that make sure I run it. So there it is. So there's the budget versus actual and you can run it. You can check a look at the total numbers on the right hand side as well. So that is that the two budget reports being the budget versus actual and the budget overview report, the budget versus actual being useful basically as time passes, noting that you can of course run multiple gut budgets, which would be displayed within the drop down as you get into your budget reports.