Recently I noticed that my running balance wasn’t showing up in Quicken Essentials. It seemed like an odd problem and at first I thought it was bug until I did a search and found a support page on Intuit’s Website.

The solution is very simple. The register needs to be sorted by date. I’m not sure how mine was sorted – it appeared to have already been sorted properly. As soon as I re-sorted the register the balances displayed.

Intuit.com: Running Balance not Displayed in Quicken Essentials for Mac