Allday Consulting's Peachtree and QuickBooks Support Boards

Can you tell me what would cause the inventory account to not show up on the balance sheet, and the total current assets be listed as "overflow"? The trial balance is ok, and shows a debit balance for inventory. The inventory summary report is fine too. When I look at my chart of accounts, it shows "overflow" next to inventory.

If you mean that it shows Overflow as a dollar amount...? I had not seen that before. To hazard a guess, it probably means that there are more digits in that number than what QB's database structure can handle. I would advise making a backup FIRST, then running a Verify and Rebuild to make sure that it's not caused by data corruption. I suggest calling Quickbooks/Intuit directly if that does not help.

In computers, an "Overflow error" is usually indicative of either a) what I suggested above (# of digits > maximum digits allowed), or b) a "divide by zero" error, which is computer-speak for "I don't know how to do that". Either way, it's not a good thing.

If the number really IS that huge, it might be time to move up to something more powerful than QuickBooks or Peachtree.