@Kal, I think you are too far down in the weeds. To see the numbers you mention, you actually had to drill down one more level below what you described by clicking on the number of transactions in a specific account in your chart of accounts. The Settings
tab is not where you should look for account balances. Do that from the Summary
page or from a specific tab. What you are concerned about is really getting into the inner workings of the program rather than the results in produces. And if you understand double-entry accounting, you know that positive numbers become negative numbers if you move an account to the other side of the accounting equation (as in Assets = Liabilities + Equity being equivalent to Assets - Liabilities = Equity).
For example, if you look at the Expense Claims
tab, all claims entered are positive. They are liabilities of the company. And if you drill down through Settings
as you describe, and look at the same claim as it affects Owner's equity
, it is also positive. But if you drill down through the chart of accounts to the Expense claims
account, it will be negative.
Trust me; if @lubos had this wrong, every other user would have noticed. 