I have been using Money for several years and have never had a problem. I
got a new computer the end of December with Money 2004 preinstalled. My
account has aways balanced to the penny. Now I am over $1,600 off from what
the bank says I have. Because I use bank on line and pay on line, I do not
understand how this could happen, and I cannot find an possible erroneous
transaction. I find it interesting that Jeff has the same problem with a
large sum of money. I am reluctant to simply say that the bank is right and
I am wrong, and I cannot find a starting point where I know we agreed. I
created a new file and restored a backup from early December. It balanced
fine at the time. It now says there is a $1600 + error. Any suggestions?

"Jeff Martin" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Jeff Martin wrote:

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You could merge the two adjusting entries into a single adjustment
that is the net of the two amounts.

If you wish to start fresh and declare an account balanced, you can
mark all entries balanced. Select to show only unreconciled
transactions. Sort by date, and go to the oldest transaction.
Hold down Cntl+Shift+M and let auto-repeat work thru the
transactions until none are left showing. Then balance making the
starting and ending balance match the known balance. Choose the
balance date to be the day after your last transaction.

I just started using Money a couple of months ago. I downloaded data
from my bank starting 12/24/2004 through whatever date I started using
Money. WHen I tried to balance my account on 1/24, there was a large
discrepency (around -$1800). I went through each transaction by hand
and made sure there were no duplicates and every transaction that was on
the statement was in Money and every transaction (between 12/24 and
1/24) that was in Money was on the statement. I added up the numbers
every way I could think of and could not get where this amount was
coming from. I finally bit the bullet and after backing up my file,
told it to enter an adjustment. It deposited the amount and screwed up
my balance, but the Balance process (even though it read 0.00) said that
the account wasn't balanced. It said there was $1800 too much. So I
told it to do an adjustment and it added a starting balance adjustment
as a payment. So now my account balances and I just have to ignore
these 2 offsetting amounts. I'm worried that if I delete them, it will
screw things up.