Amazing Quicken 2007 Feature -- But Need a Fix

Posted by jgrimmond on September 21, 2009, 6:52 pm

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I am using Quicken 2007 and just recently I discovered an amazing
feature when I did a report on Spending by 'Itemized Categories'.
Much to my surprise I found that all of my salary goes into a
Spending Category called 'Other Auto' -- yes, it is not even in
the income side!

I checked the entire Category List and could not even find
a category called 'Other Auto'. But, there is a Salary item
for me under Income.

Further, my wife's salary is correctly categorised under
Income.

First of all, what is happening as I find this (yet another)
irritating Quicken feature. Secondly, could someone
please tell me how this can be fixed.

It is not really that critical as I only use Quicken to
track our charitable contributions, but if it putting
things in strange places, the IRS may call ....

Any help will be appreciated.

tia
jg

Posted by danbrown on September 22, 2009, 12:14 am

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We'll start with the first step.

This step is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED if any progress is to be made.

Repeat after me ...

USER ERROR!!!

db

Posted by jgrimmond on September 22, 2009, 10:52 pm

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wrote:

>We'll start with the first step.

>This step is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED if any progress is to be made.

>Repeat after me ...

>USER ERROR!!!

>db

Thanks. USER ERROR, USER ERROR, USER ERROR ....

Hmmmm, that does not seem to work (just like muich
of Quicken).

jg

Posted by jgrimmond on September 23, 2009, 8:58 am

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:30 -0400, jgrimmond@yahoo.com wrote:

>I am using Quicken 2007 and just recently I discovered an amazing

>feature when I did a report on Spending by 'Itemized Categories'.

>Much to my surprise I found that all of my salary goes into a

>Spending Category called 'Other Auto' -- yes, it is not even in

>the income side!

>I checked the entire Category List and could not even find

>a category called 'Other Auto'. But, there is a Salary item

>for me under Income.

>Further, my wife's salary is correctly categorised under

>Income.

>First of all, what is happening as I find this (yet another)

>irritating Quicken feature. Secondly, could someone

>please tell me how this can be fixed.

>It is not really that critical as I only use Quicken to

>track our charitable contributions, but if it putting

>things in strange places, the IRS may call ....

>Any help will be appreciated.

>tia

>jg

Found another interesting thing. If I do a 'Reports->
Graphs-> Spending by Category, I do not find my
salary in the the pie or the numbers. (Pity there is
no pie chart for income!)

But, if do Reports -> Spending -> Itemized
Categories, bang! The salary is listed under
'Other Auto' in the expenses. The result is
a huge surplus on the expense side .....

Any *real* suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
jg

Posted by danbrown on September 23, 2009, 11:23 am

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> Any *real* suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My earlier post WAS a "real" suggestion. Until you get it thru your
skull that it's YOUR error, and not Quicken's, you'll have a great
deal of difficulty.

Further note that, you already stated that your wife's paycheck was
set up properly ... but yours wasn't. That automatically indicates
USER ERROR. Unless you're trying to claim that Q itself set up your
paycheck.

Also your statement "Hmmmm, that does not seem to work (just like
muich of Quicken)." reflects an "I'm right and the software's wrong"
attitude. Such is not conducive to any sort of problem solving.

Your statement is, also, 180 degrees opposite of my experience (and
that of anyone with an open mind). Quicken works extremely well.
It's not perfect granted, but your statement merely reflects your self-
important attitude, and not reality.