can't figure out weird error

You said there were two payments so it should show twice. Of course if you tell us which report you are looking at you might get better answers.

I began by looking at P&L for the year, then noticed an expense category (cost for sub-contractors) was showing an amount in the red, when it should have been black. The red amount was what tipped me off something was weird.

When I say there were 2 payments, the first payment covered about 99% of the job, the second payment was the balance due, which was far less than that particular sub-contractor's fee. There were 5 other subcontractors but none of them appear twice the way this one does.

thanks

If you received the money for a job you did--it would be income not an expense and that is why it is showing up red in the expense section. If you received 2 payments, then you will see it twice because there were 2 transactions.

Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor National Trainer for Intuit Accountant Trainer/Writer Network

Hi, everyone,

Fist, thank you for your help, I appreciate it!

Here's a segment of the P&L report pertaining to sub-contractors:

New Media Westin Check 10/6/2008 9371 New Media:Westin JS Enterprises

-565.22 Invoice 10/22/2008 98693 New Media:Westin New Media:Westin Labor for a gaffer -850.00 -34.78

-600.00 Check 11/5/2008 9395 New Media:Westin Telript DC 275.00

The first and last items are checks I wrote to subcontractors, which as it should be. But the middle two items are from the invoice. Please note this item ("gaffer") only appears once on the invoice, but twice in the report. The item ("gaffer") is part of a group consisting of 7 items, but "gaffer" is the only item of this group to appear on the report. And it appears twice!

Any thoughts on this?

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Network

Sorry, one last thing: the two dates on the report for "gaffer" coprrespond to the original date of the invoice (10/6/08) and the date of the wire transfer payment (10/22/08).

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Network

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That did the trick! thanks!!

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