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Originally posted by Connie gowland:
In the Investments Options box, I have nothing checked.

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I take this to mean that you went to Investments | Investment & Account Options and made sure that both the boxes under Calculate Balances weren't checked.

With these boxes unchecked, FN will still allow you to enter market values for your securities. These prices will not show up in account balances, and the Balance Sheet (or Statement of Financial Condition) continues to show cost basis. The investment reports make the necessary calculations to report
current market values and unrealized gains or losses.

Somehow, FN has created transactions to update the balance of your securities to market value. I'm thinking that possibly the Investment Options got checked by mistake. Then market prices were entered, causing the accounts to be updated. Going back to Investment Options and
unchecking the box can't undo the "damage" of these incorrect entries, although it will prevent this from happening again.

Don't despair, though, because fixing the problem is relatively easy.

1. First, verify that this is the problem. Verify that there are transactions by looking at a Transactions by Account report for one of the investments affected (for the entire year). If my assessment of this situation is correct, you should see an unrealized gain or loss transaction in December.
   
2. If you saw an unrealized gain or loss transaction in step 1 above, then proceed. If not, "reply" to this topic and give us more information about the situation.
   
3. Now determine whether you have any sales of securities in December. Print out a Transactions by Account for each account that has a sale recorded. Determine whether each security had balances updated in
   Dec before the sale. (simply determine whether the "unrealized gain" transaction comes before the sale transaction.)
   
4. Go to Transaction Activity and cancel each security sale that was
   
   • Recorded in December;
   • Has an Unrealized Gain or Loss Transaction in December, AND
   • The Unrealized Gain transaction took place before the sale transaction.
   
   
5. Go to Transaction Activity (Change/Review Transactions) for December.
   
6. Select category - Unrealized Gains or Losses and the UNREALIZED GAINS OR LOSSES account. Hit Apply.
   
7. A list of all transactions updating the accounts to market value will be displayed.
   
8. Delete every one of the Unrealized Gain or Loss transactions. Do this by typing an "X" in the status field for each transaction, then hit "enter."
   
9. The system asks, "Delete Transaction?" Hit "Yes."
   
10. Do this for each transaction listed under Unrealized Gains or Losses.
    
11. Re-enter any of the securities sales you deleted above.