Unassigned Balances

I am serving as the financial clerk and my ward has had an action item labeled "unassigned balances" for a long long time. As far as I can tell, the problem arose from a budget category with a ($0.20) balance from 2012. It was a subcategory of the Other: Authorized Member-Financed Activities. I could never see this category in the Assign Budget or Budget Summary tabs, only the Manage Categories tab. I only found out where the 20 cents was coming from by going through the categories in the Transfers tab to see their balances. I have gotten all the categories in the "Other" section to zero out but the unassigned balance action item remains and there's no other information about what the issue is. Our stake has no idea either. Anyone have experience with this?

Yes, the general "Other: Authorized Member..." category cannot carry a balance or it prompts you to take action. They want a specific activity to be listed. We had money in the general "Other: Authorized Member..." fund and we created two subcategories which we moved those $ into. We created "Other: Authorized Member Activities -- Girl's camp" and "Other: Authorized Member Activities -- Trek."

So, you need to either create a category within "Other: Authorized member" and transfer the 20 cents to that, or you need to transfer it to another category.

Doing so and then transferring that 20 cents will fix your problem. If you already have a category created, it's probably easiest just to transfer it to an existing category.

Use the Overview > Income and Expense Summary page to view the balances of Other categories and use the Overview > Income and Expense Detail page (or click on the category in the Summary page) to view the transactions involved. That page should show a non-zero balance for the top level Other:AMFA category as itsgavinc indicated. If so, then transfer those funds to a sub-category.

I also don't think that action item will disappear until the start of the next month even if you zero out the balance. I've got the same action item because of funds transferred by a ward to the stake right at the end of last month. I transferred the funds to a sub-category a few days later but because I had a non-zero balance at the beginning of the month it shows that action item. But I expect it to disappear once the November Financial Statement is available.