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Bug with _UnrlzdGain category?

was_a_guruwas_a_guru Member ✭✭
edited May 2018 in
I want to use the _UnrlzdGain category (Investment Income) to track what my financial institution calls "Accrued Interest" (interest earned but not yet paid). When I print a report for _UnrzldGain EVERY investment transaction that I made is listed (and shown as _UnrlzdGain both in the NUM field, and the category field), even though they were NOT entered as  _UnrlzdGain and do NOT show up as that on other reports.

Any ideas as to why this is happening, or a workaround to let me do what I want?

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  • Howard RoarkHoward Roark Member ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2016
    Category names that begin with an underscore are special Quicken categories; you should not use them unless you are 100% certain your use of them will not conflict with Quicken's use of them.

    Choose another existing category, or create a new category of your own, to track "Accrued Interest".
  • q_lurkerq_lurker SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2018
    Since it is not real income and since Quicken is more geared toward cash basis accounting, I do not recommend recording accrued income (div or interest).  I find it too messy.  

    You could create an Accrued Income account (not category), record the accrued income as a deposit to that account (income category of Interest), then when the payment is received, trasfer the cash from the Accrued Income account to the real account receiving the cash.  Again, I find this too messy to be of interest (no pun intended) to me.
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