Unexplained uncategorized income in report

Quicken H&B 2006 shows me an income item on the Income and Expense report which is listed as uncategorized. When I zoom in to see what transactions make up this amount, it shows a number of invoice/payment (hard to tell which at that point) lines, with 0 amounts, adding up to

  1. If I zoom any one of them, it lends on a customer payment.

How can the total of 0 amounts add up to a positive number ? ? What kind of condition on a customer payment could be associated with this? It's a complete mystery to me. The number that is being reported as uncategorized does not match any single transaction in any payment. I also can't add anything together to come up with that amount. And nothing is uncategorized in any customer transaction as far as I can tell.

Thanks,

jo

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jo
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Have you run the report for ALL dates?

Reply to
Laura

Laura,

I tried various date combinations. The report for year to date is the one where I notice the strange number with no apparent underlying transaction basis. If I keep going back year by year, I do pick up uncategorized transactions with amounts in them, usually when I made an adjusting entry for an error i made in the cash tracking on the investment area. If I do all dates, I continue to pick up various uncategorized transactions, but I don't see what they have to do with what the year to date report is telling me. Why should that report pick up anything uncategorized from previous years? And why should it point to invoice related transactions where no amount is uncategorized?

Thanks for your help. This is an odd one.

jo

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jo

"Laura" wrote

Hi Laura,

Sorry to piggyback on your reply, but I do not have access to the original post anymore.

Just wanted to add another suggestion: try running the Banking >

Transaction report for all accounts, all dates, category "Not Categorized", and amount not equal zero (Advanced tab in Customize).

Q2006 had a problem or two with a few reports; one - whose details I have forgotten - was with certain split transactions in Investment accounts.

Also double-check the selection of accounts (including hidden accounts) in the Income/Expense report and the zoomed reports to make sure the selections are the same.

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John Pollard

No problem John. I'm am aware of your ISPs short retention period. Piggy backing is good in these occasions.

I have a similar report saved in both of my files which is why I suggested running it across all dates. I include Miscellaneous and Uncategorized categories across all dates/accounts. I don't filter on non zero amounts however as I would want to see these entries too. I purposely change any entry in these categories to another category so that this report is empty when I am done updating the files.

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Laura

I have a report that shows budget vs actuals. I want to have "uncategorized" show so I can pick up any that need fixing. The thing that drives me nuts is that Quicken establishes a budget for the category! I can't find where it is to set it to zero.

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Jim T.

Have you gone through the budget setup found under CashFlow to modify your budget?

Is this report customized? You may have to add the Uncategorized expense category to that report and resave it.

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Laura

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