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How to see old statements Nope 03-08-2007
Posted by Bob Wang on March 9, 2007, 2:24 pm
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 This won't help right now, but I *DO* like my running totals to match up
with my statements.

What *I* do, is to put the date of transactions that don't appear on the
previous month's statement into the memo field.

Then I modify the date of the transaction to after the statement closing
date.

Of course, this creates other problems, especially for year-end reports, but
so far I've not had any major problems.

Bob

>>>
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 Mike Blake-Knox on March 10, 2007, 10:36 am
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> So the statements will almost never
> match the running total anywhere.

Here's a use for those backups you've been faithfully making. Take a
backup from before you started having problems and copy it to a working
location. Start Quicken then open the qdf file in the working location.
Get a transaction report (sorted by date) for the problematic account
and print it to a file.

Close the backup file then open your normal qdf file. Make a
transaction report for the the same account and save it to another
file. At this point you have two transaction reports you can compare.
You can do this by eye or by using a program. MS Word is a program many
people already have which can compare files (Compare and Merge
Documents in the Tools menu). What your're looking for is a transaction
that shows up only in one or whose "Cleared" column is different.

Hope this helps.

Mike


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Posted by Martin K on March 9, 2007, 6:30 pm
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Nope 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?
Hmmmm, if only one transaction was deleted then determine the difference
in the banks balance and Quicken balance then go back and look at
previous bank statements looking for the same amount.
Of course if more then one entry was deleted then this won't work. But
this should be a quick way to manually have look for the error.

Posted by Nope on March 12, 2007, 10:22 pm
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wrote:

>Nope 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?
>Hmmmm, if only one transaction was deleted then determine the difference
>in the banks balance and Quicken balance then go back and look at
>previous bank statements looking for the same amount.
>Of course if more then one entry was deleted then this won't work. But
>this should be a quick way to manually have look for the error.

Not sure what you mean. Compare previous statements to...what? As
was discussed in another part of this thread, the running total never
matches the statement due to transactions that have been entered but
not yet cleared.

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