[moneydance] Reconcile Accounts

[Edward Reid]

At 6/2/2009 10:38 PM -0400, Barry Miller wrote:
>I attempted to
>import only details from 2009. I figured everything would turn out
>okay after I reconcile my bank statements. It's been two months and I
>still can't get it right.

Kevin gave you lots of good tips. If those don't help, give us more 
tips on what is going wrong.

Since you didn't import everything, you may be best off inserting a 
balance adjustment on the unreconciled accounts to get them in sync 
with the bank, effectively starting from scratch now. To do this, 
just create an expense category called "balance adjustment" (or 
anything you want) and use it to alter the balance in the account. 
Obviously this isn't something you want to do normally, but to fix a 
problem so you can start with a clean balance, it's a good technique.

You could do the same thing by adjusting the initial balances of the 
accounts, though that's a bit harder. I'm not sure how exactly 
importing from a fixed date works -- I imported everything when I 
converted. Because you likely have transactions for which your date 
is the other side of the cutoff date from the bank's, using a cutoff 
means you have to manually fix these.

Edward
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