how do i.... Category Income/Expense ? (edit)

Question

im new to quicken.  i have been appreciating the program so far, but there is this thing that keeps happening if i edit a transaction in the register and i cant figure out how to make it stop doing that.  if i make any change to expense amount, it gets automatically changed to an income.   i cant understand why it is doing that and how do i am make it not do it???

Ps56k2 · Answer

if i make any change to expense amount, it gets automatically changed to an income.

need some details - what kind of account…. Savings, Investment, Credit Card -

and what does the Category look like in the Category List - Income or Expense -

Tom Young · Answer

And the other thing that could be going on is that you're using the wrong sign for the numbers your editing.  If you have a Category identified as an "income" then you generally enter the numbers for the Category as positive numbers.  Likewise, if you have a Category identified as an "expense" then you generally also enter the numbers for the Category as positive numbers.

Quicken will happily accept negative numbers in either income of expense categories, and sometimes there are valid reasons for making those entries, but they do turn "income" into "negative income" or "expenses" into "negative expenses."

Ps56k2 · Answer

the Category itself - is defined as Income or Expense - and also potentially reflected in a Tax Line Item

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