Trying to balance checking
in [Quicken]
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From: desgnr on 17 Jan 2010 15:27 Thanks "JimH" <JimH(a)invalid.net> wrote in message news:VLJ4n.16876$V_3.7817(a)newsfe09.iad... > desgnr wrote: >> Quicken 2010 deluxe >> First time trying to balance my checking account. >> I am off by $400.00 >> Do i reconcile by Paper Dtatement or Online Balance ? >> My Paper statement says 12/16/2009 thru 1/14/2010 >> From 12/15/2009 back,everything is reconciled! >> From 12/16/2009 thru 12/30/2009 there are no cleared marks. >> From 12/31/2009 thru now everything has Cleared marks. >> Maybe this is when i first went online with the account. >> Do i have to Manually put Cleared marks on the above ? >> I don't want to mess the account up. >> I know my Balace is correct by doing the Statement on paper. >> So why does it say i am off by $ 400.00 ? > > You reconcile to the paper statement. Click on "reconcile" and a small > window pops up. Enter the closing date from the statement. Then the ending > balance from the statement. When you click "OK", the transaction detail > window pops up. Make sure there are check marks next to the transactions > on the statement (and only those on the statement). If you have some > transactions that did not download, they will not have a check mark. If > they are on the statement, put one next to the transaction. Then, the > account should balance correctly. > > The rest of the transactions will get reconciled when the next statement > arrives. > > Hope this helps. > -- > Jim --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: B on 17 Jan 2010 18:15
On 1/17/2010 2:27 PM, desgnr wrote: > Thanks > "JimH" <JimH(a)invalid.net> wrote in message > news:VLJ4n.16876$V_3.7817(a)newsfe09.iad... >> desgnr wrote: >>> Quicken 2010 deluxe >>> First time trying to balance my checking account. >>> I am off by $400.00 >>> Do i reconcile by Paper Dtatement or Online Balance ? >>> My Paper statement says 12/16/2009 thru 1/14/2010 >>> From 12/15/2009 back,everything is reconciled! >>> From 12/16/2009 thru 12/30/2009 there are no cleared marks. >>> From 12/31/2009 thru now everything has Cleared marks. >>> Maybe this is when i first went online with the account. >>> Do i have to Manually put Cleared marks on the above ? >>> I don't want to mess the account up. >>> I know my Balace is correct by doing the Statement on paper. >>> So why does it say i am off by $ 400.00 ? >> >> You reconcile to the paper statement. Click on "reconcile" and a small >> window pops up. Enter the closing date from the statement. Then the >> ending balance from the statement. When you click "OK", the >> transaction detail window pops up. Make sure there are check marks >> next to the transactions on the statement (and only those on the >> statement). If you have some transactions that did not download, they >> will not have a check mark. If they are on the statement, put one next >> to the transaction. Then, the account should balance correctly. >> >> The rest of the transactions will get reconciled when the next >> statement arrives. >> >> Hope this helps. >> -- >> Jim > > > --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- And after you do have things reconciled correctly, in the future as long as you download transaction before reconciling, you should be able to reconcile to the online balance. |