Track cash transactions for investment accounts

If you use a money market account at your brokerage to pay for an investment purchase, and you receive the proceeds from an investment sale, you can track the cash transactions in Money. The cash balances are tracked in a type of Money account called an associated cash account . When you first set up a new investment account, Money tracks the cash balance by default.

To change an investment account to track cash transactions, follow these steps:

Go to the Portfolio Manager.
Right-click the account, and then click See Account Settings.
Under General Information, select the Track cash transactions check box.
Enter the opening balance, and then click Done.

Notes

Each time you buy or sell an investment, you can easily adjust the cash balance for the cost of the transaction. To do so, when you enter the purchase or sale in Money, type or select the associated cash account name in the Transfer from box (for a purchase) or the Transfer to box (for a sale).
To edit your original cash balance without adding a transaction, right-click the investment account, click See Account Settings, and then make your change in the Cash portion details area. To stop tracking cash transactions, under General information, clear the Track cash transactions check box.