How do I change from cash balance to security balance when viewing investment transactions on report

Wm Johnson

When I view investment reports, some show a security only value and others show a cash, security and total market value. How do I change what balance is showing?

Jim_Harman

It is hard to tell from your description, but perhaps one account is set up as a brokerage account, which can hold cash and multiple securities, and one is set up as a "Single Mutual Fund" account, which as the name implies can only hold one mutual fund and cannot have a cash balance. A brokerage account looks like this:


A single mutual fund account looks like this:

To convert a Single Mutual Fund account to a brokerage account, click the gear at the top right of the transaction list and select "Edit Account Details" or hit Ctrl-Shft-E then select No next to Single mutual fund account:

Jim_Harman

If an account has a cash balance, i.e. the financial instution shows uninvested money as cash and not in a Settlement fund or sweep fund, you will see the cash balance.

The total market value for an account should always be the sum of the securities value and the cash, if any.

Wm Johnson

My wife & I have the same funds. One of her funds shows a cash value while my same account shows a security, cash and total market value. If I want all the funds to show either a cash only value or a cash, security and total market value, how do I make that change for each fund? I don't recall while adding the accounts that I did something different that would result seeing different values.

Jim_Harman

It is hard to tell from your description, but perhaps one account is set up as a brokerage account, which can hold cash and multiple securities, and one is set up as a "Single Mutual Fund" account, which as the name implies can only hold one mutual fund and cannot have a cash balance. A brokerage account looks like this:


A single mutual fund account looks like this:

To convert a Single Mutual Fund account to a brokerage account, click the gear at the top right of the transaction list and select "Edit Account Details" or hit Ctrl-Shft-E then select No next to Single mutual fund account: