Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I think even at the date of
your reply it was way too late to go back to any backups I had since
none of them would have predated the problem surfacing.

Several years ago there was an issue when I skipped balancing for a
couple months and DID accept an incorrect (different from paper
statement) opening balance. In the end I had to make an adjustment in
order to get it to reconcile (unlike now, when it reconciles by using
statement start/end amounts. In a subsequent month it had an error of
the same amount and opposite sign, and I think there was a 3rd
adjustment made. After that....no problems for several years. Maybe
this has just come back to haunt me now for some reason.

Problem continues as of 12/31 statement and I will note if (as I
assume) the error is the same amount each month.





On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:28:01 -0800, Bill Becker
<BillBecker[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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When your bank statement opening balance differs from your MSMoney opening
balance it's a sign that there is a difference between MSMoney and the bank
in a previous month. As soon a this happens, look to see if you have
inadvertently changed or deleted a transaction in an earlier month. This can
be hard to find!

One technique for locating the problem is to open a backup made before the
problem started and export the account transactions to Excel. Then export
the transactions from the current file and use Excel to compare the lists.
Once you find the problem transaction you can correct it in the current file.
--
Bill Becker


"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, kaplan3jiim[at]example.com wrote:

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Bonnie Synhorst said:
|Balancing can be frustrating. .. My rule of thumb is to avoid
|changing the starting statement balance that it asks for. If you
|do this, it will try to make an adjustment that you may not have
|needed to make (if you were balancing months out of order, for
|instance). I recommend balancing month by month starting from the
|earliest date after you are sure that nothing is marked with an R.
|
|Just remember, the opening balance it asks for is a calculation of
|the opening account balance plus or minus any reconciled
|transactions.

When I go to reconcile my credit union checking statement each of the
last several months with my money account, the starting balance is not
what I entered the previous month from my paper statement. When I
change it to what the paper statement says, I get a warning. I ignore
the warning, enter the statement ending balance, and the account
always reconciles to 0 discrepancy. But then next month, the previous
ending balance gets changed when I go to reconcile the new month and I
again have to correct.

This started a few months ago. Never had a problem before and I don't
think I changed any settings to trigger the problem. I believe it did
start before I upgraded from M05 to M+. . I can go on doing this
indefinitely, but would prefer to find a way for it to stop nagging me
for something that is not wrong.

TIA