I'm guessing here. Sounds like a postponed balance attempt where an interest
amount was specified in the balance wizard dialog box. I'm not sure there is
a way to get rid of the balanced on date in this case, but that isn't really
relevant as it does nothing besides show up in the dialog box.

You say "There was a single entry for interest that was marked reconciled
with that date." Do you mean "marked cleared"? There is a difference! The
starting balance Money is complaining you don't match is the sum of the
account beginning balance and all transactions marked R or Reconciled. When
Money Balance Account complains the starting balances don't match, that's
where you have to start.

"Chad Knudson" <ChadKnudson[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am a few statements behind on my balancing so I was trying to play catch up
and when I went in to balance the account, the date it suggested for the
statement date didn't coincide with when my actual statement date is (about 2
weeks off). There was a single entry for interest that was marked reconciled
with that date. I put my statement date in with the beginning and ending
balances but then Money complained that the starting balance wasn't the same.
I can't seem to get rid of this screwy "Balanced On:" date so that I can
actually balance the account.

I've tried the file repair option but that didn't seem to fix anything with
it.