Xero: Expense to Overhead

I changed the expense values, highlighted in yellow, from negative to positive. When you upload them into CFO Scoreboard and classify them as expenses, a negative value will be placed on them. Because they are already a negative value, this will cause these expenses to become a positive value. 

There is a way fix the issue you are running into, by changing the account type from Expense to Overhead your expenses will no longer have a negative value when you export from Xero into Excel.

You can change the account type by going to Settings > Chart of Accounts, click the Account Name to edit it, use the drop down arrow to change Expense to Overhead, then click on the green Save button to save the changes. Once all of the Expense Accounts are changed to Overhead, the values will go from negative to positive.

If you rather not make that change in Xero, there's a simple way of doing so in Excel. Please see the short video below on how to make those changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xah81en5WBM