How to see old statements

Posted by Nope on March 8, 2007, 12:13 am

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I just recieving my latest bank statement and the opening balance is
suddenly too high. The only reason I can think of is that a
transaction was accidently deleted. Is there a way to compare
previous statements to quicken to see at least what time frame this
may have happened?

Posted by Laura on March 8, 2007, 9:37 pm

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>I just recieving my latest bank statement and the opening balance is

> suddenly too high. The only reason I can think of is that a

> transaction was accidently deleted. Is there a way to compare

> previous statements to quicken to see at least what time frame this

> may have happened?

This has helped me when something in my Quicken file has gotten deleted:

Sort your quicken file by date and compare the ending balance on each bank
statement until you find the one that is incorrect. Then narrow your search
by day until you find the date that is missing a transaction.

Posted by Nope on March 9, 2007, 12:07 am

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wrote:

>>I just recieving my latest bank statement and the opening balance is

>> suddenly too high. The only reason I can think of is that a

>> transaction was accidently deleted. Is there a way to compare

>> previous statements to quicken to see at least what time frame this

>> may have happened?

>This has helped me when something in my Quicken file has gotten deleted:

>Sort your quicken file by date and compare the ending balance on each bank

>statement until you find the one that is incorrect. Then narrow your search

>by day until you find the date that is missing a transaction.

I don't see how to even do that. When each statement closed, there
were always some transactions before that date that did not clear
before the statement closed...So the statements will almost never
match the running total anywhere.

At some time previously I had a transaction that was messed
up...Quicken showed me the statement it was reconciled on. How do I
go there manually? I was under the impression that it recorded all
reconciliations.

Posted by Laura on March 9, 2007, 7:48 am

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> wrote:

>>>I just recieving my latest bank statement and the opening balance is

>>> suddenly too high. The only reason I can think of is that a

>>> transaction was accidently deleted. Is there a way to compare

>>> previous statements to quicken to see at least what time frame this

>>> may have happened?

>>This has helped me when something in my Quicken file has gotten deleted:

>>Sort your quicken file by date and compare the ending balance on each bank

>>statement until you find the one that is incorrect. Then narrow your

>>search

>>by day until you find the date that is missing a transaction.

> I don't see how to even do that. When each statement closed, there

> were always some transactions before that date that did not clear

> before the statement closed...So the statements will almost never

> match the running total anywhere.

> At some time previously I had a transaction that was messed

> up...Quicken showed me the statement it was reconciled on. How do I

> go there manually? I was under the impression that it recorded all

> reconciliations.

Good point. I only download the transactions into Quicken so my bank
statements will always match Quicken. This is not the case if you are
entering transactions into your register as you incur them.

Quicken does not save the account recs so you have nothing to go back on
unless you print them out at the end of each month. At this point you may be
stuck going back through all of the bank statements until you find the
transaction that got deleted.

Posted by John Pollard on March 9, 2007, 9:30 am

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Nope wrote:

> At some time previously I had a transaction that was

> messed up...Quicken showed me the statement it was

> reconciled on. How do I go there manually? I was under

> the impression that it recorded all reconciliations.

Quicken does keep some record of each previous statement, though
I'm not sure it is a detailed record, but it can be anywhere
from difficult to impossible to see them.

The only historical record of reconciliations that I have ever
seen is that which appears if you elect to "Resolve" an out of
balance reconcile condition ... it's part of the feature Quicken
calls "Smart Reconcile". If you are going to get the option to
"Resolve", it only happens when you initiate a reconcile. At
that time, if Quicken detects a reconcile problem, *and* Smart
Reconcile is operational, you will get a dialog box, with a
message stating there is a problem, and a button labelled
"Resolve". If you don't get that, you have to take some other
approach. It used to be that you could force Quicken to display
the Resolve button by manually unreconciling a transaction ...
I'm not sure that works anymore.

I don't recall that the Resolve dialog allowed you to see a full
previous reconcile, all I remember seeing was a list of previous
reconcile statements, their dates, and balances, with an
indication of which ones were in error. I don't remember all
the details, but I think you needed to delete all reconcile
statements from the most current back to the oldest incorrect
reconcile ... then re-reconcile those transactions.

If that's not possible, the only alternative I know is to
unreconcile all the transactions, starting from the most
current, until there is no problem, then re-reconcile (you do
not have to reconcile each previous statement, you can reconcile
all transactions in one statement).

When it worked, Smart Reconcile could be turned off by manually
reconciling a transaction, and turned back on by manually
unreconciling that same transaction. If you manually reconciled
a transaction but don't remember which one it was, I have no
idea what you do.

And at some point (Q2005?), I was unable to ever get Smart
Reconcile to function, even in a new Quicken file.

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