Credit card Reconciliations

I never understood the reason for input into those fields - I always input zero into each one and moved on - never gave it much thought except about how annoying it was.

But I cannot recall a time when the credit card reconciliation did NOT work that way.

Just to be sure you know (I'm quite sure you probably do, but I'd be remiss in not mentioning) that you don't need to enter ANYTHING in a 'reconciliation' dialog if you use the ONLINE method to do so if you can.

Makes life a lot easier. But YMMV.

Actually, I have been using the online reconciliation feature for the past few years, but I didn't think of mentioning it since it did not directly relate to Mike's question.

But it's a good point to bring up. I reconcile all of my accounts online

- much better than having to wait until statements are ready!

I's been a long time since I used paper statements, but I seem to recall that by having those numbers, Quicken could help you troubleshoot a problematic reconcilation. It's been a while and I don't remember exactly how it worked. I just tried to re-create a situation that used the values but I couldn't get it to be complex enough. I used zero for all bot the final balance most of the time toward the end of my paper statement days.