Thanks...I do remember that but thought that was if you were starting from scratch (no previous data). I want to keep historical data from 2008 and prior. Am I still missing it? I'll check the tut again.
On Feb 13, 11:02 am, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:20 AM, mikemc wrote: > > > Did my first reconciliation of my BOA account and worked great. My > > question is my end of balance amount (from that bank's website) for > > 1/27/2009 is $4,487.16. So I put that in as my ending balance of my > > reconcile statement (12/27/08 to 01/27/09). I reconcile transactions > > and get the green check mark, but when I click on the last transaction > > of that statement (1/26/2009) the bottom of the graph says 01/26/2009 > > balance is ($1,063.68). > > > I thought if you click on a transaction that the ending balance for > > that day is displayed at the bottom of the graph? Am I > > misunderstanding or doing something wrong? > > Hi Mike, > > Do you have a "Starting Balance" transaction in your list? You should > and it should have the amount of your starting balance for your first > statement (and be dated prior to the first transaction on your list). > If you don't, add a new transaction, make it a deposit (if you have a > positive balance) and set the payee to "Starting Balance" and amount > as noted. Then right-click on that transaction and select Make Bucket > Optional so it doesn't show in your Unassigned bucket. > > Now change your first statement in the Reconcile view to have a zero > starting balance and include this new transaction in it. Check out our > reconcile video tutorial. It shows this technique. > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > No Thirst Software LLC > [email protected]http://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com > > Check out our MoneyWell video > tutorials:http://nothirst.com/moneywell/tutorials/ > > Join our user forum to learn about new > releases:http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
