Planning tab / budget - not working

PostProdGuy

Decided to try the budgeting function in Quicken. Tried it a couple of times in past years but found it unwieldy, but decided to give it another try.

When I click on the Planning tab Budget item, I get the "This Quicken file contains no budgetable accounts...." pop up. Various solutions I find to this include doing a file validation (have done that many times over the years unrelated to the Budget function), reloading an older back up and re-inputting X-number of entries since that backup date (not a reasonable option).

I check various Account details and do not see any selectable options to make an account "budgetable".

Am I missing something? Is associating an account to a budget buried in some other menu? Is this feature broken in Quicken? If so broken temporarily or permanently?

Do I need to rely on Excel spreadsheets for creating a budget?

Tom Young

You might try Googling "This Quicken file contains no budgetable accounts" and you'll get a few hits, a couple of which seem to have suggestions where the poster presumably indicated that the suggestion worked to correct the problem.

I'd guess that the issue is associated with some sort of data corruption but Quicken hasn't really stated exactly what triggers this error message.

Tom Young

You might try Googling "This Quicken file contains no budgetable accounts" and you'll get a few hits, a couple of which seem to have suggestions where the poster presumably indicated that the suggestion worked to correct the problem.

I'd guess that the issue is associated with some sort of data corruption but Quicken hasn't really stated exactly what triggers this error message.

David Christopher

Do you actually have an old budget in the file?  When that screen comes up does it not give you an choice as to create a new budget?  If so, create a new budget using this guided starting place.