Validation error: incorrect backfilled investment cash transactions

"vodil" wrote

I believe you get backfilled cash adjustments when you enter an investment transaction controlled by a placeholder, in an investment account with a linked checking account.

Transactions controlled by placeholders are not allowed to alter the cash balance of the investment account. When there is no linked checking account, such transactions get "N/A" in the "Cash Amt" column. But where there is a linked checking account, there is no cash amount in the investment account ... it's all in the linked checking account. In such cases, Quicken creates an offset to the transfer of cash to the linked checking account. So you could see a Div transaction (for example) followed immediately by an XOut (balancing cash adjustment) transaction for the negative amount of the dividend - effectively causing no change to the cash balance.

If you have told Quicken to show "hidden" investment transactions*, placeholders and backfilled cash adjustments should be visible in the investment account registers. You should also be able to see them in the Investment Transactions and Banking Transactions reports.

"vodil" wrote

I now notice them in other investment account types ... where I didn't think they would be. My mistake.

I don't know what Validate considers bad, but I'm pretty sure the number of shares adjusted by the placeholder isn't material.

I don't know any way to identify one that Validate doesn't like.

The transactions show up in the Banking > Transactions report.

Look for "Balancing Cash Adjustment" in the memo or description field.