Why are some credit card transactions listed as "Debit" on monthly report?

The Keeper
The Keeper Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
edited September 27 in Reports (Windows)

Quicken Deluxe for Windows - Version R63.21 - Build 27.1.63.21

When I run a monthly Citi Visa Credit Card Transaction report, there is a Num column between the Account column and the Description column.

I am curious why some transactions are listed as "Debit" and others are left blank.

In the Citi Card account register, there is no debit column because all the transactions are a credit card, yet the report shows some transactions as "Debit"

This isn't causing any kind of problem it is just a strange curiousity question

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  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    In credit card account registers you can (or should) have a Reference# column (which is the checking account register's Check# column by another name.
    This column can be used in the same way as Check#, with various texts as needed.

    As to "Debit" appearing there … is it possible that the downloaded transaction contains this text? You would have to look through the download log file and see what's actually been downloaded.

    My own Citi card register only shows blanks in Reference# … so I don't know why yours are different …

  • The Keeper
    The Keeper Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for your reply. I don't have "Reference# column. My columns are listed:

    Date - Payee - Category - Memo - Charge - Clr - Payment - Amount - Balance

    I don't download any transactions but manually enter them when I make a credit card purchase. Interesting that yours show a Reference#

  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can easily add or delete columns in your banking account registers.
    There's a Register Columns icon in the register's column title line(s), next to the Balance column title. Click it and you'll get a popup listing all available columns. Locate the Reference column, click it to put a checkmark into the box. When finished making changes, click Done.

    While you're at it …

    Using Register Column Amount together with Charge and Payment Columns?
    Does your account register show the Amount column together with Charge and Payment (or Payment and Deposit) columns? Is your register looking a little crowded with all these columns?
    Depending on your personal preference you should use
    • either the traditional pair of Charge and Payment columns together
    • or the newer Amount column alone (where you have to enter negative amounts with a Minus sign and positive amounts with a plus sign)
    but you really don't need all three of them.
    Please decide which columns to use and remove the other one(s) from the view.
    Q Windows: To add / delete columns in your register click the Register Columns gear icon located next to the Balance column header.
    Q Mac: there's a Columns button at the bottom right of the register view

  • NotACPA
    NotACPA Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    And, BTW, in accounting terms your use of a Credit Card IS a debit … it reduces the value of the card account, usually making it more negative.

    Q user since February, 1990. DOS Version 4
    Now running Quicken Windows Subscription, Business & Personal
    Retired "Certified Information Systems Auditor" & Bank Audit VP

  • The Keeper
    The Keeper Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭

    UKR…….thanks so much for the detailed and helpful information and phrasing it in such a way that it was easy to understand. I learned something new from you and it is always a great day when you learn something new.

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