Budget Overview Report - Inactive Account showing

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An inactive account will show on the Budget Overview report if it contains transactions for that period. To verify this, you can review your Chart of Accounts. I'll guide you on how.

1. Go to the Lists menu and then select Chart of Accounts.

2. Put a check in the Include inactive box.

3. Double-click the inactive account to open.

Once you've seen the transactions, you can either delete them or change the account it is associated with. Then, recreate the report and check if you can still see the inactive accounts.

If the inactive account has a zero balance, you can customize the report to exclude the zero balance accounts. 

Here's how:

1. On the report's page, click Customize Report at the upper right of the page.

2. Select the Fonts & Numbers tab.

3. Put a checkmark in the Except Zero Amounts box. 

4. Click OK. 

Also, I've got some helpful articles for you to check out about Chart of Accounts and customizing a report:

• Understand the QuickBooks Chart of Accounts

• Customize reports in QuickBooks Desktop

You can count on me if you need more help with managing your reports in QuickBooks. Have a good one.

Did you create your budget from scratch, or elect to populate your budget from historical data? There is a Bug that will bring in inactive accounts into your budget reports if you created your budget using previous data. I recovered everything from backup...started new...and entered budget data from scratch. Ran the report and it was clean, with no inactive accounts. .