Here's what to do:

1. For each short sale liability account, create an asset account with a slightly different name. For example, if the short sale liability account is ABC SOLD SHORT, you could create an asset account called ABC SHORT SALE.

2. Go to Accounts | Change or Delete Account Name. Select the liability account.

3. In the New Name box, type in the new asset account name. Select OK.

4. When the dialog box "Change ABC SOLD SHORT to ABC SHORT SALE?" comes up, select OK.

5. When the dialog box "Delete ABC SOLD SHORT and reassign transactions to ABC SHORT SALE?" comes up, select OK.

6. When the dialox box "ABC SOLD SHORT was deleted. x transactions were reassigned to ABC SHORT SALE" comes up, select OK.

7. Select Cancel to return to the Financial Navigator desktop.
   

You could use the steps above to move an account within a Class. But it is much easier to just drag the account to where you want it to go.

However, there is a way to get all the transactions from an account in one Class to an account in a different Class. See the Forum post Moving Account from Equity to Expense. This post shows you how to relatively easily change each transaction, which is easier and less error-prone that reentering everything.

- David
FNI Support