Sage 100

I have never seen this before... we have a customer who has two companies with simlar setup and similar expenses incurred. When setting up an SMI report, we noticed that in one company expenses are showing up as negative and in the other company they are showing up as positive. Both expense accounts are setup the exact same, under other income and expenses. Any idea why one would show up as negative and the other positive?

Is there a company-specific setting in SMI that controls the format for accounts that normally carry a debit balance vs. a credit balance?

In SMI, the natural balance of the account is just based on the account category assigned to the it. The ones I checked were identical between the companies.