[moneydance] Initial Balance not matching

[Edward Reid]

At 14:20 09/13/07 -0500, Mr. Mark Mecum wrote:
>My problem is when the reconciliation dialog comes up, the initial
>balance does not reflect my initial balance in the account, and I
>cannot change it in the dialog.

You can't change the reconciliation initial balance because it is strictly 
the sum of the account initial balance and all reconciled transactions.

If the account in Quicken had an initial balance (from when you first set 
up the account), then MD does not import this correctly (at least not 
always), partly due to limitations of the QIF format. Instead it tends to 
set up an account with a similar name but X added. If this has happened to 
you, then edit the account to set the initial balance the same as the old 
account, and then delete the X account.

Even if you cannot identify the initial amount as the problem, one solution 
is to simply adjust the initial balance to make the first reconciliation 
work. Or you can set up an expense category of "balance adjustments" and 
use it to transfer the discrepancy to or from the account. Of course you 
probably only want to do this for small discrepancies; for large 
discrepancies you probably want to figure out the reason.

Edward
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