Overdue Income and Bill Reminders in investing accounts incorrectly included in account bar balances

leishirsute

Why has this issue been closed if it hasn't been resolved?

Overdue Income and Bill Reminders in investing accounts are included in the account's balance in the Account Bar but not in the account's Current Balance at the bottom of the Transaction list, in the Account Overview (Holdings view) or in reports.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7962281/incorrect-balance-in-account-bar-for-investment-accounts#latest

Is it fixed in R63.19?

Jim_Harman

Not resolved in R63.20.

In order to keep an issue like this open, we must apparently add a comment at least monthly, to indicate that it is still an important issue.

Here is a more complete description of the problem, from the discussion that has been closed:

Overdue Income and Bill Reminders in investing accounts are included in the account's balance in the Account Bar but not in the account's Current Balance at the bottom of the Transaction list, in the Account Overview (Holdings view) or in reports.

This is incorrect behavior. Only transactions that have been entered into an investing account's Transaction List should be included in the Account Bar balance.

In Banking accounts, there is an option to include Reminders in the register, but if this option is selected, Reminders correctly affect both the register's current balance and the Account Bar balance, so the balances remain in sync.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Note the Current Balance at the bottom of an account's Transaction List and the balance in the Account Bar. They should be the same.
2. Create a monthly income or bill reminder for an investing account and set the starting date several months ago. This will create several overdue reminders.
3. Observe that in the account's balance in the Account Bar has changed by the total amount of the overdue reminders but because the Reminders have not been entered into the account's Transaction List, the Current Balance at the bottom of the Transaction List does not change.

To work around this problem, you must Enter all overdue Reminders for investing accounts, Skip them, or edit them so the the next due date is in the future.