On Sep 25, 6:37 pm, "Vernon Sandusky" <Verno...[at]community.net> wrote:

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Vern,

I have a CD in a brokerage account I maintain in Money, and in my
experience the current "price" of the CD automatically updates when I
download the account balance and statements from my bank. I'm lucky
with this account because I have other brokerage accounts that simply
will not interact correctly with Money when downloaded, so I have to
maintain them manually. [sigh]

The good news is yes... you can manually update the CD price like
this:

1. Open your account list.
2. Click to open the account containing the CD.
3. Once the account is open, on the menu to the left of the account
register, click on "Account Summary."
4. Click once to highlight the CD in the "holdings" menu.
5. On the menu to the left of the holdings list, click "Update
prices."
6. On the next menu that pops up, click on "Update prices manually."
7. In the pop-up box that will appear, make sure the name of your CD
is displayed in the "Investment" window at the top (it should be
already).
8. Type in the date and price of your CD and click on the "Update"
button... and that's it.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

My experience with CD price tracking in Money has been that Money
keeps track of the CD price in $100 of original CD value. For
example, if you bought a $1000 CD, and it's now worth only $900, then
the "price" Money uses is to track its value is "$90." Likewise, if
you bought a $100,000 CD and it's now worth $101,000, the "price"
Money uses is $101. The correct total CD value will display in the
holdings menu of the account.

Good luck,

JAL

I have MS Money 2007. How do I set the current value of a CD? It seems not
to let me do it, but insists the current value of a CD is the purchase
price. The way that Merrill Lynch reports the value of a CD in a brokerage
account is by its current or discount value. If I have to use the purchase
price as always the current value, it makes it difficult to balance my
brokerage statements against my porfolio values.

Is there a way to let me set the current value of a CD or somehow fake the
system into thinking it is a different kind of investment?

Thanks,

Vern