Do a P/L report and zoom in any expense account to see transactions for that account only. Then modify the detail report and show the column for Open Balance.
If there were any checks or credit card charges applied to that account all those transactions show their amounts in the Open Balance column along with any bills with happen to be unpaid.
In Quickbooks checks and credit card charges are handled as transactions that have an open balance.
No amount of beta testing can correct such level of incompetence.
You are dead wrong. I'm sure if you were a beta tester you would come up with this off the wall so called problem. I'm also certain that Intuit would not waste any time with this minutia. Any who, what does open balance in the context of the above mentioned report represent? Does it even make sense to add the column? Probably not.
It appears this was a genuine solicitation to bring people on board to beta test a new Intuit product. If this was really the case, Intuit couldn't have made it look more like an email phishing scheme if they tried. Anything that shows up in my inbox addressed, "Dear [insert financial institution or company of your choice] Customer," and isn't addressed to me by name is immediately suspect. - particularly if I've never used the product in question or have an account with whatever financial institution.
Either this was a deliberate ploy of some sort (for whatever reason), or some of the folks at Intuit are pretty clueless. Neither bodes well for the company, IMO.
They haven't because they're incompetent or disinterested in product quality, take your pick.
Are you aware of the blatant display of your ignorance?
We need to show total Electrical expenses for a project and which of those are still open. The piece of garbage called Quickbooks shows checks and credit card charges as having an open balance, meaning, they are still unpaid in the report I mentioned. In which universe of idiots do checks have an open balance? Only in the pc-slave-farms of Quickbooks development and the incapacitated brains of their cheerleaders.
I still don't understand why you continue to use QB since it doesn't seem to meet your needs, and you are totally unsatisfied with the product and the company. Is this decision out of your control, which would make your venom ladened posts understandable?Though I will admit, your discussions with Allan are usually amusing, which is the only reason I haven't added you to my killfile.
There are many times the user can physically add a column to a report but the output does not make sense. Your example is one of them. My advice don't add that field, the program does not support it.
When I come to a point where I need to take your advice then I'll know that I have to stop whatever I'm doing and go live with the sheep herders in Mongolia for the rest of my natural life.
Your ignorance is insurmountable.
If Quickbooks did not support the Open Balance field (?) then it wouldn't show the Open Balance for the bills that are indeed open.
If Quickbooks did not support the Open Balance field then that field would be blank, like dozens of other fields that are blank even when they shouldn't be - let alone the fact that they are there to confuse the user in the first place.
Quickbooks *does* support the Open Balance field because this field works - some times - in some reports where it shows the open balance on bills. But the stupidity of the developers comes into play when they have decided to have Quickbooks handle checks and credit card charges as transactions that have an open balance.
Can you spell "stupid"? I'm sure you can. So stop defending the indefensible. It's one thing not to care or not to be affected by this stupidity, but it's another not to even admit it or recognize it.
The five dozen unrelated fields that are listed in the Columns list in Modify Reports. This is another definitive proof of idiocy. That list should show only the fields that have relevance to the report that the user tries to modify. If I need to modify a Customer Open Balance report I shouldn't have to be going over fields like Health Effective Date.
I realize that your brain is still stuck at the time when you had to keep a bank balance with paper and pencil so things like this are beyond your comprehension, but trust me, the level of incompetence in Quickbooks is beyond what you can grasp. Just know that you are cheerleading for idiots.
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