Hi all:
My wife incurs billable expenses teaching science as an independent contractor. As she incurs the expense I enter the amount in a receivable account. She typically accumulates these expenses for several months at a time before actually preparing a bill for them. When she prepares her bill, which she does independent of my accounting, I'll go through and match her listing to mine, recording each line item in the receivable account as "cleared" ("c" in the Clr column of the register) as a check that she's got them all and to pick up any small charges - typically paid in cash - that didn't get entered.
Today, undertaking this exercise for the first time using QD2010, I ran into a snag that I don't remember ever hitting before with previous versions of Quicken.
Attempting to clear a line item in the receivable register that resulted from a split transaction (credit card purchase at supermarket that was a mixture of groceries and reimbursable expenses) an error message popped up reading "This transaction was created as a transfer from a split transaction. In order to change it, you must go to the source transaction by using 'Go to matching transfer' from the edit button."
Of course, when I do that I'm simply presented with the Split Transaction screen in the credit card account used. I don't want to change the amount in the original transaction and the credit card transaction itself has long since been reconciled. So now, it appears I'm stuck. It seems like the only way out is to change the original credit card charge into 2 separate charges in order to avoid the "split" aspect, but that means there would be 2 transactions in the credit card account account that wouldn't match the original credit card statement, something I'm loath to do.
Any other work-arounds?
TIA.
Tom Young