I just upgraded, due to the "old version nag message," to 09 premier. The program works about as good as any previous version, and still contains an agravating problem: In my stock investment account I've entered the actual stock value to replace a "placeholder" entry. Quicken refuses to deduct the cash from the investment account bank balance, even though the transaction shows as a "bought," not a "boughtx" transaction. My stock accounts balance is way off because the cash is still showing in the investment account. I have never been able to reconcile this account.
I use TD AmeriTrade and keep money on deposit in a MMkt account with them to purchase stock.
Anyone had this problem, and what did you do to get the bottom line right?
You say this as if you believe the "problem" was a bug in your previous version that you expected to be "fixed" in Q2009.
I'd swear I've posted the answer to this several times.
One of the features of a placeholder (an "Adjust Share Balance) transaction, is that it allows the user to enter historical transactions for a security without affecting the cash balance in the account. It's basically intended for those who either do not have the full history of the security, or do not have a Quicken account for the source of the cash for the dates of the purchases (and the lack of a Quicken source of the cash can be handled by a better means than a placeholder, in my opinion).
Transactions for a security with a placeholder, entered after the placeholder was entered, with transaction dates on, or before, the placeholder transaction date ... will never affect the cash balance in the account.
And even if you delete the placeholder, those historical transactions will not affect the cash balance in the account.
The only way to get the historical transactions that are - or were - linked to a placeholder, to affect the cash balance is: delete the placeholder and delete all its associated historical transactions (the ones with "N/A" in the Cash Amt column) ... then re-enter the historical transactions.
In my opinion, if you have the historical transactions for a security and you intend to enter them in Quicken, you should never allow a placeholder for that security to be entered in your Quicken account.
You probably HAVE posted this answer several times, but in looking over the messages in the newsgroup I couldn't find anything that applies. At least now the answer will be available for a time, until it scrolls off the world again.
I think I got the placeholder entries the first time I linked up with Ameritrade. The software just found the stock and couldn't find the cash account transactions. Thus it just installed the entries and let me deal with them. As I'm trying to clean up the data now I've entered all the cash transactions, but the stock is grossly overstated by the placeholder entries.
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