Cash Dividend Not Entering Correctly

And because I can already hear Mr. Pollard chiding me for not including the version, it's Quicken 2008 Premier. Sorry.. forgot that.

Good to know the version (Q2008). :)

Read up on "placeholders" (they are "Adjust Share Balance" transactions). Placeholders are almost always the cause of "N/A" in the cash amount. There is a LOT of information about placeholders in Quicken Help, this newsgroup, and the Quicken Forums.

To find the placeholders in your investment accounts (in versions later than Q2005), modify your preferences:

Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program > Investment Transactions

Put a check in the box to "Show hidden transactions".

I'm not really sure if that was the problem or not. I did have some placeholders but after I finished they are gone. I will add a few fake transactions to see if the problem went away. Just not tonight. I'm tired. Just wanted to reply as it's the polite thing to do. Thanks for your advice John.

Placeholders are never quite "gone" (unless you delete them): they become "hidden" if you have entered actual transactions that cause you to hold the same number of shares specified in the placeholder (as of the date of the placeholder). That's why the box to show hidden (investment) transactions is so valuable; it forces placeholders to always be visible.

This was necessary prior to Q2006; but see above for a better approach, after Q2005.

My apologize. I meant to see if that was indeed the cause of my original problem. I can see that I entered all my stocks and the placeholders "went away'. I knew I had placeholders. I just didn't know that it would affect my entries that way. I wanted to validate what you said by proving to myself that the problem was fixed, which I did. I can now enter all my stocks without issue if I need to. Thanks again.