Budget Category: <b>Everything Else<b> showing up in Budget, unselected

Richard Roberts
Richard Roberts Member ✭✭✭
edited August 10 in Budgeting and Planning Tools (Windows)

I have used a "Cash Flow Budget" I created several years ago, but have recently noticed the "<b>Everything Else<b>" 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

Answers

  • bmciance
    bmciance Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 28

    That usually means that you entered a budget at a "parent" level category and the budgets and your "child" levels don't add up to that. The difference is plugged into "Everything Else". To get around this I ALWAYS only enter budgets at the child level. They will sum up at the parent level.

    As for the "0" in budget amount in Everything Else, I think that could mean that you have spending in a category that you did not include in your budget. Is there an actual amount in everything else? If so, that is your problem.

    Quicken Windows user since 1993.

  • Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts Member ✭✭✭

    bmciance,

    Thanks for your comments. I do, in fact, only enter budget amounts in Child categories, and let them roll to the Parent line in the category. Not every Parent category has an Everything Else listing, but several do, and at this time they register as 0.

    However, in my budget printout (and not in the planning Budget Screen), there three different places where the entry reads "Everything Else" that is in the position of a Parent category, and these are significant values under the budget heading, and $0 in the "Actual" column. I can't figure out where these are coming from, or how to get rid of them.

    I am using the same basic budget template that I have used for years, and this past year, 2024, is the first time these extra "Everything Else" categories, in the Parent position, have shown up.

    Thoughts?

    Thanks.

  • bmciance
    bmciance Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

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

    Quicken Windows user since 1993.

  • Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts Member ✭✭✭

    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.

  • Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts Member ✭✭✭

    bmciance,

    I have now recreated the report, from scratch, and, sadly, it continues to have entries of "<b>Everything Else<b>" 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.

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