Portfolio and Budget Report

[Tom Roberts]

I have an interesting problem with our Money file. And for me iit’s a hard nut to crack !

 

As far as I can tell, it seems to be related to either the portfolio or the Monthly Budget Report. The problem also exists in the Annual Budget Report. I’ve used both Reports successfully for about 10 years or more. And the portfolio for almost as long.

 

The way I input interest and dividends is similar to the method Ameridan describes on his website. I set up category names to identify the account name and type of income -- dividend or interest. Recording the transaction, the interest and dividends are assigned to the “Other Income” type, and I choose the category whose name reflects the account and income type. The income appears correctly in our Monthly and Annual Budget Report. At least it used to…

 

I checked and all our income transactions appear correctly in the investment registry and the cash registry of the investment accounts. The Budget Report has lines for total monthly interest and total monthly dividends, with correct values in the budgeted amount column. I have been printing the Monthly Budget Reports regularly. But this month (Dec) I noticed that the income of some the investment accounts is shown as zero. The budgeted amount is correct. I looked back at earlier printed reports and noticed that up until Sept 2025, the investment income was correctly reported for all accounts. 

 

I did a Quick File Repair but no luck.

 

If it was a Favorite Report I could delete it and start again, but it’s a canned report so not possible.

 

Other options I’ve considered:

1) reverting to the Sept mny file and rebuilding all accounts from that point in time – very laborious due to the numerous transactions,

 

2) using another canned report – none of them include the budget feature which we like,

 

3) doing a Standard File Repair which probably resets all the canned reports to their defaults, but it may also kill the budget we’ve constructed and probably some other collateral damage which I am not aware of,

 

4) consulting with the experts here, thus this email.

 

Thanks for any inputs or guesses or recommendations.  And Happy New Year 2026.

[Tom Roberts]

I use Money Sunset with the updated dll file

And I tried the Reset command for the two budget reports but there was no improvement

Thanks

Tom

[Tom Roberts]

Interestingly, the monthly income and expenses shows the missing investment income, but the Monthly Budget doesn't.

[Cal Learner]

Tom said "As far as I can tell, it seems to be related to either the portfolio or the Monthly Budget Report."

I don't use budget. I use the Portfolio Manager, and I set up a Shortcut for Portfolio, which gets me to Portfolio Manager.. After looking, I don't think you are saying that you have a problem with Portfolio Manager.  I also have a Shortcut set up for Reports.

So I looked at reports, and made sure you were talking about Advanced Reports. Yep, you are.

In Reports, there are two standard reports that have the word "Portfolio" in the name.  What portfolio thing gives you a problem, or is that part of some budget aspect? 

In Standard File Repair, level 2 does not reset reports; level 1 does. The two levels do different things -- neither is a subset or the other. So I would do Quick, Standard level 2, and Quick again. Not saying that will fix your problem, but is a good general thing to try.

[Tom Roberts]

Hi again

I discovered the issue - somehow the checkbox for the investment account got unselected in account details. "Include this account in the budget planner" 

What a relief.

Tom