How Can I Remove a "Pseudo" Cash Account?

Question

I created a problem many years ago and am trying now to solve it. For reasons I do not remember, I created in my investment accounts, what seems to be a pseudo-cash account, which I called "Fid-Cash". Over the years I never tried to reconcile the accounts nor deal with this Fid-Cash thing. Right now several of my accounts show either positive or negative balances for Fid-Cash as well as regular Cash.  I want to solve this and make the retirement accounts reflect reality.  With hat in hand, I respectfully ask for your suggestions.

For example, o :(  ne account has a positive balance in Fid-Cash and a negative balance in cash. I entered a "Remove Shares" transaction and brought the Fid-Cash line to zero, but at the same time lowered the total balance of the account. The Cash balance did not change from its negative total.  I  have been unable to "deposit" cash, and the program seems to  want the deposit to come from another account, such as a checking or savings account. This is something I do not want to happen.

Is there an approach to fixing this years old problem?

Thanks for any help,
 Ken

Jim_Harman · Answer

If you don't want to or can't find the origin of the cash imbalance and just want to fix it going forward, you can click on the gear t the top right of the account and select Update cash balance. Enter the correct cash balance and date.

This will affect Quicken's performance calculations, but they are wrong now anyway.

q_lurker · Answer

You can call up a BANKING transaction report customized to investment accounts and limited to select categories, etc.  Within that report, you can highlight select transactions and Edit to delete those selected transactions with one click.  Beats the 'individual' approach.

But deleting those transactions will (I expect) alter the cash balance in your account in some fashion.  If you want to get rid of that pseudo-security, you are going to have to deal with that cash issue somehow.

Ken45140 · Answer

Jim_Harman: thanks for responding. Fid-Cash is not a MM account. By selling Fid-Cash, the cash in the account does not then match the actual cash. So the second task is to bring the cash balance into alignment with actual cash. Cash balance in Quicken does not match real cash even without considering Fid-Cash. Again, a real mess I am trying to fix. I continue to appreciate suggestions.
 Ken