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Posted by Joe on March 10, 2007, 7:23 pm
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John,
I figured it out, you were referring to the new account. I was able to fix!
> All my transactions are one of the following
> XIn
> Bought
> Div
> Reinvdiv
> ReinvLg
> ReinvSh
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> Would any of these be the cause of the error?
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> If it helps, my biggest manual touchup is going to be the way I accounted
> for 401. I entered it in my paycheck I received every two weeks, and in
> the paycheck (in my checking account) I was doing transfers (XIn) to my
> 401k. Not sure if this is what you consider a placeholder.
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>> Joe wrote:
>>> I ran the script from the forms as Bob suggested and it
>>> worked great. The only issue I see is all the funds I
>>> "bought" (and they are not "boughtx") show up with N/A in
>>> the Cash Amount column. Any idea why ?
>>
>> You have one or more placeholders (Adjust Share Balance) transactions in
>> the account.
>>
>> If you setup a new account and download to it, you usually don't get the
>> option to Accept individual transactions, Quicken accepts them all
>> automatically. Then Quicken seems to forget to ask you if you want it to
>> "adjust" your share balances, it just enters placeholders automatically.
>> (And your new account almost certainly would not have had correct share
>> balances since most of its history was in a different account).
>>
>> Look for transactions with an Action value of "Entry", those are
>> placeholders. (If you don't see any, have Quicken display hidden
>> investment account transactions (Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program >
>> Investment transactions).
>>
>> Since you are intending to have all the historical transaction in the
>> account, you should probably just delete the placeholders.
>>
>> You may find that you will want to redo the qif file import; once a
>> transaction becomes linked to a placeholder, it will never affect the
>> cash in the account ... even if you delete the placeholder.
>>
>> So delete the placeholders before importing transactions from the other
>> account.
>>
>>> I only imported "transactions', nothing else. I didn't
>>> think anything else was needed.
>>
>> --
>> John Pollard
>> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
>> Please reply to newsgroup
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