It has had various problems from the get go. I haven't tried it in later
versions as I find the Account Summary|Update link (bottom left of the page)
does all I need and works besides.

Others may have a better answer, so don't take just my data point as the
final word.

"Dan Konigsbach" <dkonigsbach[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:36d77fbb-9d6c-4155-b5c1-f1e6886642cb[at]e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
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I find the 401(k) Manager in Money 2005 maddening. I wonder whether
it's been improved in later versions.

I would like to balance my 401(k) to the statement I receive using the
401(k) Manager. It isn't possible. (No, it's not. Read on.)

Money will simply not let me enter both the correct Quantity and the
correct Market value. My 401(k) account manager computes NAV (price
per unit) to six decimal places. Money only handles Price to three
places, and, because of rounding, usually cannot compute a Price for
which Quantity * Price = Market Value. So, it "corrects" my Market
Value. You cannot get Money to accept both the correct Quantity and
Market value at the same time.

That means the computed total in the 401(k) Manager won't match the
statement total (unless the rounding errors happen to exactly cancel
out). I end up adjusting the Statement Total I enter in the 401(k)
Manager to match what Money is capable of computing. That really bugs
me, because:
1) if I'm entering the December 31st values to report to the IRS, I'd
really like to report accurate numbers to the government.
2) I resent having to make things ever so slightly wrong because the
software I'm using can handle the truth.
3) It's annoying that I'm asked to enter the Statement Total, and
then can't balance against it.

The only good thing is that Market Value varies day by day, so except
for the end-of-year balance, the error that Money makes me introduce
is really only of historic interest.

BUT, what I would REALLY like would be either:
- for Money to do the calculation inside the 401(k) Manager at a
higher precision, even if it eventually stores the Price at a lower
precision, or
- let me tell Money that I can do arithmetic better than it can, and
make it accept my Market Value if it's within the range (Quantity *
(Price - 0.0005)) and (Quantity * (Price + 0.0005)).

Note: Account Summary > Account Update has effectively the same
problem.

Is this improved in a later version?