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incorrect 401K contribution information

I am using Quicken 2004. As I am preparing for my tax return, I went to Report -> Tax -> Tax Summary with date range for last year. I noticed that there's one extra 401K contribution:

Category _401Contrib Account Tax Impact of 401(k) Accounts Num MiscExpX Description Memo Track 401(k) contributions for tax planning

Note that the "Account Tax Impact of 401(k) Accounts" isn't a real account I defined in the database. Instead, it appears to be some internal database that Quicken maintains. In this errorous transaction, the Description is blank. I do recall I had entered one transaction that later was deleted. How do I fix this problem? Is there any tools that I can download or purchase to do "data surgery"?

Thanks for your help.

Danny

Reply to
Danny Lin
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I feel relatively certain that there are no "tools" that you can download to alter your Quicken data for the situation you describe. The "Tax Impact" account has been around a while and, as far as I know, it is directly controlled totally by Quicken. But you are the one who indirectly controls what goes into that account.

I believe that if you want to correct some problem in the Tax Impact account, you will have to correct the transaction(s) that "caused" the problem (the transaction date should help).

Reply to
John Pollard

Thank you for your reply, John. The transaction is no longer there. It has been deleted. Quicken should have removed the corresponding transaction in this internal account but it did not. I tried data export with different dates but that doesn't help to fix this problem either. It stays even after I removed all my investment accounts. It would be deleted ONLY ofter I deleted the _401Contrib category (which is only allowed after all investment accounts were deleted.)

Any other ideas?

Maybe we should lobby Intuit to open up the database. There are open source database technologies. If they can convert their application to one of these, that certainly will benefit many people.

Reply to
Danny Lin

But will it benefit Intuit to make it easier to migrate their customers away to competing products?

Reply to
Mike B

No, I'm sorry, I don't.

I do not think this is a realistic expectation.

Reply to
John Pollard

How about if you entered another transaction for the same date that would offset that original bad transaction. Then also delete that transaction. Seems like it would then have 2 internal transaction but with a sum of zero.

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Art Matz

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