# Balance Change transactions

**URL:** <https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002 "2024-07-10T19:12:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MikeZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MikeZ](https://community.emma-app.com/u/MikeZ)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/1 "2024-07-10T19:12:01Z")

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Just noticed this morning that every time I change the balance of an offline account it creates a “Balance Change” transaction. I’ve been doing this for years with my offline investment accounts without this transaction appearing.

It’s messing up my budget - is there a way to disable them, please?

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**Author:** ![Freud999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Freud999](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Freud999)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/2 "2024-07-11T10:40:16Z")

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I’m having the same issue. Also if balance change is an increase that transaction will show as a negative amount and vice versa.

Here’s an example. I increase the balance by £5 but it shows as a negative amount.

 ![Screenshot_20240711_113357_com.emmaprod](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/emma_app/original/2X/3/35d978b81a7a4bfdd29eb45c1252c7dfd5b63a51.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![antonio](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/antonio/32/47_2.png) [@antonio](https://community.emma-app.com/u/antonio)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/3 "2024-07-11T11:45:12Z")

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Thanks for the feedback.

We started showing balance change transactions to give more granular control over how the chart would display, as before all balance change operations were hidden and every now and then we get customers who don’t remember changing the balance and wondering why their chart is going up or down a certain way (and not being able to change that to their needs).

> [@MikeZ](#):
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> It’s messing up my budget - is there a way to disable them, please?

There’s no way to disable them but we are changing this to default to all these newly created transactions to the excluded category. This stops them interfering with your budget.

> [@Freud999](#):
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> Also if balance change is an increase that transaction will show as a negative amount and vice versa

This was a bug on some accounts that we’ve now just fixed.

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**Author:** ![MikeZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MikeZ](https://community.emma-app.com/u/MikeZ)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/4 "2024-07-11T13:03:12Z")

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> [@antonio](#):
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> There’s no way to disable them but we are changing this to default to all these newly created transactions to the excluded category. This stops them interfering with your budget.

Thanks - I was having to do this manually. Thanks for fixing the income/expenditure anomaly, too 🙂

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**Author:** ![Freud999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Freud999](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Freud999)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/5 "2024-07-11T13:28:33Z")

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Great. Fixed 👏🏽

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**Author:** ![frosch411](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/frosch411/32/1460_2.png) [@frosch411](https://community.emma-app.com/u/frosch411)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/balance-change-transactions/7002/6 "2024-07-11T13:46:24Z")

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I had the same issues with these and had reached out to the chat.  
Thanks for fixing this so quickly.