Getting Bank Investments like CDs to Appear Under "Investing"

Nov 18, 2009 2 Replies

I'm using Quicken 2009. In addition to my investments like mutual funds and bonds and the like, I have a large bank CD and substantial cash held in savings accounts and the like at my bank. These appear up in the "Banking" part of my left side "Accounts" pane.



The problem I'm having is that if I run reports to look at my overall investment portfolio (to show the splits between stocks, bonds, and cash), it doesn't include any of the cash up in my "Banking" area, only the part down below. Thus, it shows a much smaller percentage of my money being in cash than is actually the case.



Is there a way for me to fix this? Does it involve somehow moving these cash accounts down to the "Investing" area, by redesignating them as investments rather than banking, in some way?



Thanks.


You can get Quicken to treat spending accounts more like investment accounts for reporting (and display) purposes. Open the account to the Overview tab and click Edit Account Details. In the "Account Location" dropdown, select "Investing: Investment" (assuming these are not retirement accounts - which is the other possible choice). I'm not sure I would choose to treat my savings accounts as investments, but I do have some CD accounts that I have placed in the Investing location. I also hold some CD's in a brokerage account and I have them defined as securities in Quicken.

That is exactly what I was looking for, John. Many thanks.

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