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Posted by jaygreg on February 27, 2008, 7:59 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanks, John. I'll try that. Just curious... will I mess anything up if I
simply decide to delete a transaction received from the brokage if it's
already posted in my register but not a perfict match? The amounts match.
> jaygreg wrote:
>> Using QH&B 2005. A brokerage account holds one stock whose dividends
>> I post as a "DIV" when dividends are declared then post an XOut cash
>> transfer to my bank. There's no trading taking place; the account is
>> clean as a whistle with nothing but dividend and interest entries.
>> Unfortunately, I
>> mustn't have paid close enough attention to the "Downloaded Transactions"
>> the
>> brokerage sent. I'm not dealing with a lot of transactions but when I
>> highlighted the last dividend this month, the cursor jumped to the
>> "XOut" entry because the "Div" was cleared (marked "c"). Accepting
>> this seems harmless since the action won't place a new entry in the
>> register. I know it's not the right transaction but it looks like
>> this "Match" feature searches for "amount" first and I don't know what
>> next. Should I just accept
>> the downloaded transaction as a match to the transfer out and forget
>> about it? Everything seems in balance including the bank register.
>
> If the downloaded transaction shouldn't match, I would not Accept it as a
> match.
>
> Try modifying the date of the existing register transaction (the one being
> matched to) to several years in the past (or future) to get the downloaded
> transaction to be given a Status of New, Accept the downloaded
> transaction; then change the altered date back to its original value.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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