Unwanted "Everything else" entries in budget reports (Income and Spending)

Joe 96

The last entry in the Income section of the budget report an unscheduled category " "Everything else" appears with a large entry in the budget column. It also appears in several places in the spending section of the report. Where do these come from and how do I eliminate them?

Bob_L

They will show up, when you have selected a master category but not all of its sub categories. Either only include sub categories without the master or inclue all of the sub categories and its master.

auga

@Bob_L

When you say "you have selected a master category but not all of its sub categories", where exactly are you referencing? The budget REPORT customization, or the budget's MANAGE BUDGET CATEGORIES selections?

The problem seems well known/documented:

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7967231/everything-else-bug-thread-closed-without-update-requesting-accountability-and-transparency

Bob_L

The selection I mentioned is in the budgeted categories on the planning tab. I follow that strategy myself and have no "Everything Else" entries show up.

For eample, my budget has a category named Auto Expenses with several, but not all, subcategories checked to be included in the budget. I just now checked the master category for Auto Epenses to be included, and sure enough, "Everything E;se" showed up on the tab.

I am running R65.29. Another factor may be assiging new Category Groups which I do not do, i.e. I use the existing setup of Personal Expenses, etc.

bsantelli

I am continuing to have this issue since feb 2025. it is NOT the issue where only some sub categories are selected in the planning tab, those make sense and appear as a sub category, but my report has phantom everything else categories at the category level (like it is a separate category) not as a sub-category catch all. This is most definitely a bug and I am flabbergasted that it has been a year with no resolution. I was in software development and production support (retired now). This cannot be that difficult of an issue to resolve.

Bob_L

Are you using custom "category groups"? If so that doesn't change fact that it is a bug but using the default category groups could maybe be a workaround?

UKR

Just f.y.i., Everything else lines in Budgets are explained in a section of

Work with a budget (quicken.com)