Unexplained uncategorized income in report

Posted by jo on August 20, 2007, 10:36 pm

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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
0. 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

Posted by Laura on August 21, 2007, 9:14 am

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> 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

> 0. 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

Have you run the report for ALL dates?

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~Laura~

Posted by jo on August 21, 2007, 11:29 am

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> > 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

> > 0. 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

> Have you run the report for ALL dates?

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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

Posted by Jim T. on August 22, 2007, 9:03 am

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wrote:

>> 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

>> 0. 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

>Have you run the report for ALL dates?

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.

Posted by Laura on August 22, 2007, 10:07 am

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> 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.

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.