Under all Transactions, some negative numbers are no longer red? (Q Mac)

Matt Newland

In this case, specifically, the Banking numbers right under All Transactions, used to be 'red' when it was negative. Now, it is always black regardless of positive or negative.

jacobs

@John_in_NC I think @Matt Newland is talking about the values in the left sidebar. I can confirm after doing a few dummy transactions that the values for main Group Balances, like Banking and Investing, show negative values in black, while values for Sub-Group Balances, like Cash and Credit Card, show negative values in red. 

John_in_NC

Quicken 2015-Current (2020) have all used the same coloring scheme:

If using the "Amount" column, inflows are green, outflows are black. 

If using separate inflows/outflows columns (i.g. Payment/Charge, etc.), both are black.

The running balance in individual accounts is black if positive, red if negative. Since the All Accounts view (or any other account grouping) won't display a running balance, you won't see any red values there.

Is this not what you are seeing?

jacobs

@John_in_NC I think @Matt Newland is talking about the values in the left sidebar. I can confirm after doing a few dummy transactions that the values for main Group Balances, like Banking and Investing, show negative values in black, while values for Sub-Group Balances, like Cash and Credit Card, show negative values in red. 

Matt Newland

Exactly! Thanks! Also, I discovered today that when I paid off a credit card down to the zero balance - the zero balance now stay's red and it doesn't turn to black when zero like it used too!

Glad it's a bug and not a new form of accounting!

John_M

Yes, this is quite strange. It didn't used to do this. It's interesting, since I have a credit card that I had paid off and then my wife returned the item, creating a credit balance. This transaction was entered before the most recent update, and the amount showing in the sidebar is black. When I created a fake transaction in another account just now, zero and positive values stay red! So it appears that this is only affecting transactions since the update.

I will also report this as a bug.