Only if you marked a payment reconciled or unreconciled since you last
balanced, without going through the balance process.

Do not change the start date. You're only perpetuating your problem. Enter
an adjusting transaction if you have to, once, but after that, you
shouldn't have to again.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


<kaplan3jiim[at]comcast.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:53:16 -0500, "Chris Cowles"
<spam_magnet[at]remove-me-bellsouth.net> wrote:

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You may very well be right, but I seem to recall I was forced to
change it sometimes. Statement date this time was November 1,which is
what I entered. Llast one was September 30. Will see what Money comes
up with for a start date next month.

Of course, with so few transactions in a given month, I could probably
bogus a statement date as last day of month every time. I might just
have to manually subtract a deposit from the "statement balance" if
that statement was made and the deposit made on the 1st of the month.
Never had a bank pull this silliness before. ALWAYS had statement
dates coincide with the last day of the month; but for good reason I
chose to use this bank for this particular account need (NO cost).

The start date never should change. It's the previous end date and was
fixed when you last balanced the account. The end date may change from
month to month, as you described.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


<kaplan3jiim[at]comcast.net> wrote in message
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I have a business checking account which receives one large deposit
somehwere between the 30th and 3rd of each month and then disburbses 5
checks. The statements available on the bank's web site have
statement dates that have ranged from the 29th of the month to the 1st
of the (next) month. As a result sometimes there may be 1, 2 or 0
deposits on a statement. There may also be 1, 2 or 0 statements
attributablle to a gviven calendar month. The deposit date in Money
matches the date on the statement.

When I balance this account in Money, I change the start date and
balance to reflect the bank statement (if necessary, which it seems to
be sometimes) and insert the end date of the current statement and
balance. I usually encounter some sort of problem. Today...the
first attempt to balance a statement which began on Sept 30 and ended
on November 1 ended up with an error of roughly two deposit checks. I
refused its offer to make an adjustment I knew was wrong. Even though
the screen presented to me showed ALL credits and debits cleared,
properly. It showed credits and debits for from Sep 30 onward, all
with checkmarks after them. I postponed balancing and then just tried
it again with the same dates and opening and closing balances and it
was perfectly happy to say "congratulations....", while showing a
blank register - no longer were the October transactions shown with a
checkmark.

I can only hypothesize that it is getting confused by the fact that
consecutive statement dates may be 2 in 1 month (9/1 and 9/30 for
example) and then skip a month (October for example). It seems like
just repeating the reconcile/balance attempt fixes it, but it may well
come up again in some manner the following month if, for example the
statement ends on the last day of the month, and the previous
statement ended on the first of the same month.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there a different
solution than just postponing and then repeating the balance?

M2005 standard is being used.

Jim