Negative Balances on Credit Cards

[David Carlson]

On 2/27/2015 3:52 AM, scumbuster wrote:
> Did you check to see if perhaps you have duplicate credits/payments to the credit card accounts? Perhaps you have accidentally duplicated tour credits due to manual input and then the importing process?
>
>  Jerry K Radke <jerrykradke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Help, I have been using GnuCash 2.4.8 on a Windows laptop for several
>> months now.  Just recently I noticed that all of my credit cards were
>> showing negative balances.  Today when I tried to reconcile one of them I
>> ended up with a mess because I started out with a negative balance.  What
>> did I do to make the balances all at once become negative and how do I fix
>> it?
>>
>> I do have a parallel set of books running on an old version of Quicken and
>> that is still clean.
>>
>> Jerry K. Radke
>> 63855 250th Street
>> Nevada, IA 50201
>> 515-382-4102
>> 515-231-7191 (cell)
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One other possibility is that you inadvertently changed the Edit >>
GnuCash Preferences > Accounts
> Reverse Balanced Accounts selection to None instead of Credit Accounts
which more closely mimics other programs like Quicken.

David C