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Posted by Sharif on February 4, 2007, 2:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Sharif wrote:
> > wrote:
> >> Sharif wrote:
> >>> Whenever I transfer money from a Business Account to a
> >>> Cash Flow account, it is marked as an expense. Is there
> >>> a way to make it so that it isnt an expense?
> >> What would you like it to be?
> > Just a transfer I guess. It messes up my reports to see
> > money that is being transferred between accounts as
> > expenses when they aren't being spent on anything.
>
> All Quicken categories (and a transfer is categorized) are
> basically either income or expense; there's no other place to
> put them.
>
> But you don't have to include any particular category in any
> report. And Quicken does recognize that transfers are special
> animals; that's why, for example, many reports separate
> transfers into separate groups from regular income or regular
> expenses; why most reports allow you to "Exclude All" (or
> "Internal") "transfers"; and why transfer "categories" are
> available on the "Categories" tab in the Customize dialog for
> reports, so you can treat each transfer category separately, if
> you choose.
>
> So if the transfer is already being reported in its own
> "Transfers" group, I don't think you can improve on that and
> still report the transfer at all. (Though you can give
> transfers a "Category Group" of your choice to separate them
> too.). If you are looking at a report of expenses, perhaps you
> just don't want to see the transfer at all: so exclude it from
> the report; either at the "category" level, or by excluding all
> transfers.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
Thanks a lot for clearing that up. Two days into using Quicken and my
account skills are improving :)
How would I categorize a credit card bill/payment for a card I use on
everyday expenses?
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