[moneydance] For discussion: Trac Item 837- Difficulties in reconciling

[Tim Ashman]

Hmm, I haven't noticed this problem.  I enter in the Ending date of the 
statement and moneydance only pulls in anything uncleared before or on that 
date.  I wonder what is different about your situation.

However I have a problem in that it isn't easy to see which transactions are 
incorrect if the balance doesn't match exactly.  There are months where my 
difference is zero and I just click done, but on the months where there is  a 
difference a couple of things would be nice.

1.  Be allowed to select all/none by type of transactions.  IE   Deposit, 
Expense, Check.  Usually my income matches but I have to clear all check 
marks, then recheck all of the income ones it would be nice to be able to 
just uncheck all for the expenses.

2.  Have the checks separate from the expenses with subtotals, etc.  Most bank 
statements break checks out so having moneydance do this makes it easier to 
reconcile each part separately.

Just my two cents, it isn't that big of a deal but since it was brought up I 
thought I'd chime in.

One last comment to Sean, I have to say the program is progressing nicely and 
it is a joy to use. Everytime a conversation comes up about personal finance 
programs I mention Moneydance, the room actually leans to one side from all 
of the heads turning at the same time, but then I explain and certain 
gravitational problems are corrected before to long,  ;-)

tim

On 12/28/2006 19:39, Brian Juergensmeyer wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> For general discussion, I just submitted item 837 to Trac dealing with
> difficulties in reconciling Moneydance with my monthly bank statement.
> The problem is (and has always been) that Moneydance will load all
> transactions into the reconcile window regardless of when they cleared
> the bank.  For those of us that download our transactions on an ongoing
> basis, this means that we have a choice of either:
>
> 1- doing a secondary balance on a separate sheet of paper so we can
> exclude the items already marked as clear.
>
> 2- noting all of the already cleared items, unchecking everything,
> reconciling everything, and then RE-checking all of the items that have
> cleared the bank after the reconcile period on the statement.
>
> 3- Simply accepting an unbalanced statement and hoping that we and the
> bank both have it right.
>
> FWIW: I suggested that the Right Thing in this instance would be for
> Moneydance to exclude any transaction from the reconcile window if
> either the transaction date or the cleared date are after the "as of"
> date given in the first reconcile dialog.
>
> Obviously, Sean keeps track of some state dealing with downloaded
> transactions as they are matched up with manually entered transactions.
>  I have no idea how hard it would be to add this, but it causes me to
> say bad things to my computer every time I fail to reconcile my account
> within 2 or 3 days of the statement closing date.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Brian Juergensmeyer