# Negative cash balance

**URL:** <https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430>\
**Category:** New feature ideas\
**Created:** [11 July 2021 05:35 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430 "2021-07-11T05:35:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Pokeutopia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sharesight/user_avatar/community.sharesight.com/pokeutopia/32/270_2.png) [@Pokeutopia](https://community.sharesight.com/u/Pokeutopia)\
**Post date:** [11 July 2021 05:35 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/1 "2021-07-11T05:35:04Z")

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• What feature do you want to see in Sharesight?  
I want to be able to record interest charge on my margin loan (Interactive Broker) on a per day basis

• Why do you want it?  
• How is this affecting you?  
• Do you currently have a workaround solution? If yes, what is it?  
• Can we reach out in future to ask follow up questions about this idea?

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Sharesight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@Rick\_Sharesight](https://community.sharesight.com/u/Rick_Sharesight)\
**Post date:** [1 August 2021 04:03 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/2 "2021-08-01T04:03:52Z")

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I’m keen on something similar but for a different reason. That is, I’d like to be able to record a liability. Essentially I’m building up an unrealised Capital Gain Tax liability and it’d be good to be able to record this so I can reflect the (approximate) actual realisable portfolio value. At the moment it is overstated. Even a -ve cash balance account would let me achieve this.

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**Author:** ![rn233343](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@rn233343](https://community.sharesight.com/u/rn233343)\
**Post date:** [1 August 2021 07:59 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/3 "2021-08-01T07:59:46Z")

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more examples of liability accounts with negative balance - pension account, carried forward capital losses. Now we end up keeping separate for simplicity sake.

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**Author:** ![Dockerdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@Dockerdan](https://community.sharesight.com/u/Dockerdan)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2021 05:06 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/4 "2021-08-08T05:06:22Z")

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I would like this negative balance / cash feature too for margin loans on my interactive broker accounts. I would also like to be able to enter short sales in a similar way with negative balances. It would also allow me to enter the selling covered calls and cash secured puts on my portfolio without keeping everything separate.

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**Author:** ![aaron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sharesight/user_avatar/community.sharesight.com/aaron/32/437_2.png) [@aaron](https://community.sharesight.com/u/aaron)\
**Post date:** [9 November 2021 02:35 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/5 "2021-11-09T02:35:21Z")

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Same here. I often end up with small negative FX positions when buying foreign equities under my IBRK margin account. And I can’t accurately capture these transactions using Sharesight, without fudging some numbers.

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**Author:** ![Tony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tony](https://community.sharesight.com/u/Tony)\
**Post date:** [9 November 2021 23:38 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/negative-cash-balance/430/6 "2021-11-09T23:38:24Z")

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I would like it to be able to track the interest on the loan for my investment property. At the moment, I can only use ShareSight for tracking capital growth and I have to use spreadsheets & accounting programs to track everything else.