Using QH&B 2005. A brokerage account holds one stock whose dividends I post as a "DIV" when dividends are declared then post an XOut cash transfer to my bank. There's no trading taking place; the account is clean as a whistle with nothing but dividend and interest entries. Unfortunately, I mustn't have paid close enough attention to the "Downloaded Transactions" the brokerage sent. I'm not dealing with a lot of transactions but when I highlighted the last dividend this month, the cursor jumped to the "XOut" entry because the "Div" was cleared (marked "c"). Accepting this seems harmless since the action won't place a new entry in the register. I know it's not the right transaction but it looks like this "Match" feature searches for "amount" first and I don't know what next. Should I just accept the downloaded transaction as a match to the transfer out and forget about it? Everything seems in balance including the bank register.
There's a bit more to this entanglement but I'll withhold it pending a response because if this feature is merely acting as a feed of transactions at brokerage to help me keep my ledger in tune either automatically if everything matches perfectly or manually if it doesn't, I assume it doesn't matter much if I even elect to just delete all the "downloads" they give me if I have them posted already...not that I would want to do that. I'll pay closer attention when I get this straingthed out.