diff --git a/app/Import/Transformer/BaseTransformer.php b/app/Import/Transformer/BaseTransformer.php
index ee9b137dcff5..81d38ba75e75 100644
--- a/app/Import/Transformer/BaseTransformer.php
+++ b/app/Import/Transformer/BaseTransformer.php
@@ -315,14 +315,11 @@ class BaseTransformer
     public function getFloat($data, $field)
     {
         if (array_key_exists($field, $data)) {
-            //$number = preg_replace('/[^0-9-.]+/', '', $data[$field]);
             return Number::parseFloat($data[$field]);
-        } else {
-            //$number = 0;
-            return 0;
-        }
-
-        // return Number::parseFloat($number);
+        } 
+        
+        return 0;
+        
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/app/Utils/Number.php b/app/Utils/Number.php
index 67568d6da81b..2fa7e64a462a 100644
--- a/app/Utils/Number.php
+++ b/app/Utils/Number.php
@@ -95,6 +95,14 @@ class Number
      */
     public static function parseFloat($value)
     {
+        if(!$value)
+            return 0;
+
+        $multiplier = false;
+
+        if(substr($value, 0,1) == '-')
+            $multiplier = -1;
+
         // convert "," to "."
         $s = str_replace(',', '.', $value);
 
@@ -108,7 +116,9 @@ class Number
         // remove all separators from first part and keep the end
         $s = str_replace('.', '', substr($s, 0, -3)).substr($s, -3);
 
-        // return float
+        if($multiplier)
+            $s = floatval($s)*-1;
+
         return (float) $s;
     }