In microsoft.public.money, reef150 wrote:

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Remember that the process I had posted was a catch-up and assumed
that the numbers were already ok. If that was a correct assumption I
would not change the starting date and balance on your next balance
of a real statement. So as long as you don't have transactions
marked Reconciled but are not even present on the new statement, you
should be OK to leave the starting balance and date unchanged, and
just put in the ending balance and date of the new statement.

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Not really. I am certainly no master of the balancing procedure.

I will remind you to review your backup situation. Restoring a
backup is your method to undo things back to a point in time.

In microsoft.public.money, WOppenhe wrote:

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Actually I got the advise from somebody else. If adjusting the
starting balance works well for some, that's good.

Thanks - I found that shortly after posting the query...

Somehow, it is still not working out for me.... I've Ctrl-Shift-M all the
items which have cleared through my last statement - there are a handful of
things in the register which have been recorded but not cleared the bank
(outstanding checks) and a handful more of electronic-debit things which have
cleared the bank, but were not on the 4/2/08 statement.

Perhaps the magic now is knowing what date to set for the "statement" the
starting/ending balances to provide, (and then maybe how to figure out what,
if any, adjustment is needed to my original account starting balance).

Do I need to somehow "reset" the balance wizard info since I started trying
to go through this? I tried at one point with a "virtual" statement of
4/3/08, and it is selecting a number of transactions that posted on 4/3/08 as
"checked" - not sure I want this since they will show up on my next statement
so I don't really want them reconciled when I come back through next time...

Cal - any MVP mastery advice?



"WOppenhe" wrote:

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See Cal Learner's 4/2 response. I have always adjusted the starting
balance, if I do not want to go thru the trouble of locating a small error,
most likely due to a service charge, droppd online charge or some such
thing. But he advises against that.


"reef150" <reef150[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am having issues in balancing / reconciling accounts with Money Plus
Deluxe. I started using the 2007 verison of Money sometime last year, and
had downloaded/synced a number of accounts - then fell out of the habit until
sometime in Feb 2008 - I updated to Money Plus at that time, and pulled the
"old" transactions to where I think I had recaptured everything.

I know my accounts are "correct" - the Bank balances matches my Register
balances (when accounting for transactions that have not cleared/posted), so
at least I feel good that what is currently recorded is "right". When I go
to "Balance" an account, and enter the starting/ending balance, Money
indicates the Starting Balances don't match - I go through the statement and
all the transactions are properly recorded / reconciled, and Money still
thinks it can't Balance. If I let Money enter an adjusting balance then the
Bank & local Register amounts are way off.

At one point I went back through all the 2008 statements (maybe one or two
back into 2007 as well) to make sure all transactions were there & correct -
is this "starting balance not matching" due to the original setup of the
account?

How do I get this to a state that I can get Money into a "clean" reconciled
state so that I can do an easy balance going forward?

thanks in advance...