Quicken Premier 09 won't reconcile

Mar 03, 2009 3 Replies
H

This is weird - either my brain is malfunctioning, or Quicken is!



My financial institution just started up the Quicken download, so some of my checking entries are already reconciled via online downloads, and some of the past month's are not. In using the paper statement to "catch up" the account through the month of January the reconciled balance is off by about $43, and one (I suspect perhaps more as well) of the past transactions does not show up in the reconcile list. A cash withdrawal of $100 on Jan 31st appears in the check register, but no matter if I manually change it from cleard to reconciled, or clear the reconciled flag, the transaction will not appear in the January reconciliation list of debits.



Am I doing something wrong, or is this some sort of bug in Quicken 09?


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M

do remember that transactions dated past the closing date don't show up in a manual reconcile.

There are two dates associated with a transaction - the date you see and the "posting" date which you can see by the arcane "right click for menu, hold ctrl, click on copy" to see the secret info. I don't know which date counts for reconcile.

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H

I managed to fix the problem by deleting the phantom check register entry, then closing Quicken. When I reopened Quicken I manually entered the transaction and like magic it showed up in the reconcile register AND the check register.

I have to assume this was some sort of index file synch error or something.

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J

My guess is that the transaction you deleted had a "posting" date that prevented it from qualifying for the reconcile. When you deleted and re-entered the transaction, it got a posting date that was blank ... and blank posting dates qualify for every reconcile.

[I don't think you needed to exit Quicken after deleting the transaction.]
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