In microsoft.public.money, jsh347[at]gmail.com wrote:

- quote -

The balance in a credit card account is based on the amount you owe.
Note at the bottom of the register, it says "you owe ...". So if you
owe money, then there would be a positive amount in the balance.

I suspect you have a negative balance, which indicates a credit.
This can come about by entering an initial account balance that is
negative. The cure would be to change the initial balance to the
correct positive number in the account settings/details.

I will usually manually add my credit card purchases until they are
downloaded. I put them in the CHARGE column (as I should), but when I
download my transactions Money puts my purchases into the CREDIT
column and it puts my payments into the purchases column. It's
downloading them backwards!!

I have the account type set as credit card (like it should be), and I
enter my manual transactions in the correct column..

WHAT IS MS MONEY DOING???