I do.

I compare and/or enter transactions from transaction confirms for shares and
total amount. I mark transactions Cleared (Ctrl+M).

(For non-401k accounts): I compare share holdings from account statements to
either Account Summary share holdings or, sometimes, to Portfolio Standard
View as of date of statement views. I cross-check the share balances and put
a check mark on the statements. Once all is well (and anything like
distributions and interest off the statement that I hadn't noticed earlier
are entered) I mark all transactions to that point in the Investment Account
as Reconciled (Ctrl+Shift+M). (For non-retirement accounts): I balance the
Investment Cash Accounts to statements.

(For 401k accounts): I use the Account Summary Quick Update to get all to
good numbers and then mark all activity in cash/investment accounts to that
point as Reconciled. I treat the 401ks differently since: a) the volume of
transactions is just overwhelming and generally useless in individual
transactions (though I do try and enter those for market valued
investments), b) the Investments are not always market valued and managing
by share price and daily values is hard to impossible for these cases, and
c) the 401k Manager that insists on balancing 401k accounts has been broken
and/or just really odd for so long as to be a running joke amongst long time
users.

For the record and those who don't already know, I do not download
transaction data, OFX or otherwise.

"Loutrix" <spamyou[at]nospam.net> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Loutrix wrote:

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Users don't do this. Positions that are downloaded from the broker
do get compared to the account holdings during OFX statement
processing.

With regard to balancing an investment account (common stock,
non-retirement) against the monthly statement, I see the option on the cash
account side to do so much akin to balancing out regular bank accounts.
However, the investment transaction side does not have this option and after
the transactions on the cash side are reconciled, there is no change to the
status of each investment transaction listing the buys and sells of common
stock.

Is there an easy way to mark as reconciled these transactions or do you have
to pick through each line item separately? Do users even bother doing this?

Thanks.

John