Maturity dates for bonds and cds report

Question

I just discover this report.  I have several cds and I added them to the securities list as directed from another discussion.  However when I try to run the maturity dates for bonds and cds report under reports and graphs the report is blank.  Under my investments I added a column there and the maturity dates show up.  I want a report I can print out and keep on the calendar.  When I go to show the report in reports and graphs, and I try to customize it my cds are not in the list of accounts.  The only accounts listed are investing accounts.  I have the CDs marked as asset class cash.

Karyl Wilson · Answer

Thank you.  I was wondering if they were 2 different issues.  Appriciate your help.

q_lurker · Answer

I'll refer to two basic types of real-world CDs — those opened as an account at a bank and those bought through a broker as a security.  That first group commonly are treated in Quicken as Banking (cash) accounts.  The second group are treated in Quicken as securities bough in an investment account.

It appears yours are in that first group.  The Maturity report you cite only deals with the second group.  While you can change the intent of an account to move it from the Banking area to the Investments area, that does not change the type of the account.  Thus that change does not make the bank CD into a security picked up by the report.

The only way to have your CD appear in the report would be to

* have an investment account, 
* create a security representing the bank CD including the applicable maturity date,
* buy that CD in that investment account.

That structure will not allow the CD to be 'updated' by downloads from the bank.  The CDs in the investment account will have to be maintained manually.

Karyl Wilson · Answer

I clicked on the account, choose edit, went to displays and changed the account type from savings to investment. And they still don't show up.  Is there some other place I need to change it?  I also set up a fake account as an investment.  I still noted it as a cd and it still didn't work.  I must still be doing something wrong.  I didn't notice this report until yesterday.  Is it new?  Thank you for responding!