Register balance off due to signs reversed on split transactions.
This has been a recurring, but inconsistent problem, after Quicken updates. A checking account that I haven't used in several months that should have a zero balance suddenly showed a negative $150K balance. I traced the problem to over 5 years of my income transactions inside that account. These were entered as splits, not using the paycheck form. In all these transactions, the signs were reversed on all the split amounts inside the transaction. I had to manually go into each transaction and use the 'adjust' button to get the transaction to show the correct signs and amount deposited.
This has happened only after a software update, but not every time and not every account. It's very frustrating.
I'm on Win 11, R66.28.
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I corrected this account manually. Since I posted this a few hours ago, another set of split transactions were changed. It appears that Quicken forgets whether a category is an income or an expense when the transaction is split. The total payment in the register should be 1135.99 not 366.24.
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If you delete that -$933.76, the sum of the split lines only comes to $1,300 … so something in the transaction is still wrong.
And NO, status as Income vs Expense is immutable. Do you intend for those "Helderberg" txn to be transfers, and the $686.64 to be the only expense in the txn? Because that's what you're showing.
In a recent transfer from my IRA account to my taxable checking account, the NET amount of the transfer is shown as the Deposit in my checking register, and in the Split lines, the TOTAL of the transfer is a positive amount in the 1st line of the split and the taxes w/h are a Negative amount on the 2nd line … thus resulting in the net deposit.
A negative amount assigned to an Expense category (the taxes) results in the expense being made greater.
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These transactions were created from the mortgage loan payment module. The total mortgage payment was 1300. All the splits are transfers to the mortgage, escrow, additional principal, and interest were recorded appropriately. The transaction above was recorded almost 10 years ago. TODAY, the -993.76 shows up out of nowhere. Explanation????
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