Budget Category: Everything Else showing up in Budget, unselected

Question

I have used a "Cash Flow Budget" I created several years ago, but have recently noticed the "Everything Else" category showing up randomly in my budget print out. Some show "0" for budgeted amount, but others show significant values…like 10,000. I don't see them in my "Planning" Tab in Quicken, and I can't eliminate them in the "Manage Budget Category" tab as they don't show there! This makes my budget planning ability impossible. Anybody with the same experience? Any solution to this vexing problem? Thanks for any help

Richard Roberts · Answer

bmciance, I have now recreated the report, from scratch, and, sadly, it continues to have entries of "Everything Else" in the report. These entries are in the parent column, and they occur in both the Income and Expense portions of the report: 1 in the income portion, 7 in the expense portion. There is a $0 value in the Income section entry, but the total of the values in the Expense portion shows Budgeted entries of $17,304.84! Of course, none of these entries occurs in the Budget from which this report is generated. Where do I go from here? This makes my budgeting process totally unreliable, and the value of Quicken for budgeting essentially worthless. Thanks again for your help.

Richard Roberts · Answer

I'm thinking that is the only option here, but I was trying to avoid it and the work invovled..

Thanks for your help, and I will likely do just that…..recreate the report I want and get out of the saved format I have been using.

bmciance · Answer

Is this a saved report that you have been using over the years?  Maybe it is corrupted.  Perhaps you can try recreating it?