Spending Categories
A category turns a list of transactions into totals that can be compared. Without one, a statement records what happened without saying what it added up to.
Categories answer a question a transaction list cannot: where did the money go?
What categories make possible
- Totals per area, rather than per merchant.
- Limits that mean something, set per category instead of against one number.
- Change over time, since the same category can be compared across months.
- Charges that went unnoticed, which surface as a category larger than expected.
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