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Please indicate what operating system, Quicken version you use and what method of reconciliation used to help identify where your problems might be.This latest version of Quicken, i.e. 2016, is basically destroying the program for me. I depend on picking up where I left off with the last reconciliation. What on Earth are they DOING?? I can't do a reconciliation without an adjustment. How can I go back to the old way on 2015, that worked just fine?
Actually, in QM2007 you can change the beginning balance. There are valid cases to allow for this, as identified in the 1st and 3rd advantages listed above (though these should be rare situations, yet I have needed to use that in the past...but I got everything in order after the fact).Most of the ideas regarding the tracking of reconciliations completed are real good but I disagree with allowing the beginning balance to be overridden by the user (I could not change the beginning balance field in 2007). Quicken needs to protect the integrity of the reconciliation process or it gets out of control and impossible to identify and or provide support for user issues/problems. No point in reconciling at all if it's not going to have a balanced continuation into the next recon as in "2007". You should be able to click on Reports or View Reconciliation History and pull up a list by beginning and ending balances and associated dates corresponding to the bank statements balances and periods showing the difference when balanced equal to 0 or if >0 and if an adjustment entry was made (how much) to balance.
I guess I never tried to alter the "standard" reconciling procedure then given my background. But I really don't understand why you would need to change your starting balance anyway.Most of the ideas regarding the tracking of reconciliations completed are real good but I disagree with allowing the beginning balance to be overridden by the user (I could not change the beginning balance field in 2007). Quicken needs to protect the integrity of the reconciliation process or it gets out of control and impossible to identify and or provide support for user issues/problems. No point in reconciling at all if it's not going to have a balanced continuation into the next recon as in "2007". You should be able to click on Reports or View Reconciliation History and pull up a list by beginning and ending balances and associated dates corresponding to the bank statements balances and periods showing the difference when balanced equal to 0 or if >0 and if an adjustment entry was made (how much) to balance.
Suffice it to say that though I could agree to having some more control to modifying the starting balance, like a confirmation dialogue box to making such a change, with more clear implications defined, I do not see it as necessary to completely block the changing of this value. QM2007 allows it and has enabled valid scenarios to be handled with no ill effect.Most of the ideas regarding the tracking of reconciliations completed are real good but I disagree with allowing the beginning balance to be overridden by the user (I could not change the beginning balance field in 2007). Quicken needs to protect the integrity of the reconciliation process or it gets out of control and impossible to identify and or provide support for user issues/problems. No point in reconciling at all if it's not going to have a balanced continuation into the next recon as in "2007". You should be able to click on Reports or View Reconciliation History and pull up a list by beginning and ending balances and associated dates corresponding to the bank statements balances and periods showing the difference when balanced equal to 0 or if >0 and if an adjustment entry was made (how much) to balance.
That has nothing to do with the feature request and is not part of it. It was only used as a use case example.In reviewing this request for improvement, the premise is to have a History report of details on reconciliations completed in Quicken 2016 like in QM2007 which allows for re-reconciling is much needed. The part about changing the beginning balance in the reconciliation process does not fit in this scenario and confuses things. Reason I didn't vote.
This comment has nothing to do with the feature request. Don't confuse the two by discussing the issue about the opening balance here.Really the better approach in lieu of changing Quicken beginning balances for flexibility to skip recon periods for what ever reason, is NOT to change the Quicken calculated beginning balance but use the "Adjustment" feature available when you click on the gear icon. Just enter each statement period ending balance and date and click the Adjust function and done for each period you don't want to reconcile the difference which then I hope would become part of the new History report and allow you to re-reconcile at a later date if you so choose.
There's also currently a "Start Fresh" feature too you might want to check out. So Quicken did address some variables without compromising it's integrity.
The other point to consider is Quicken has to insure their support team is able to resolve issues for all users where they can hook on to the users PC and be able to trouble shoot based a straight forward formats and numbers that are generated by Quicken that are not any number a user can override Quicken with and make data unreliable.
I'm sorry you have me confused now. Below is a copy of what you listed as part of the enhancement request I was referring to:In reviewing this request for improvement, the premise is to have a History report of details on reconciliations completed in Quicken 2016 like in QM2007 which allows for re-reconciling is much needed. The part about changing the beginning balance in the reconciliation process does not fit in this scenario and confuses things. Reason I didn't vote.
The intent of that line is to say this is functionality as is today, so to leave that as is (which btw, has been like this since as far back as I can remember, and I have been using Quicken since '92).In reviewing this request for improvement, the premise is to have a History report of details on reconciliations completed in Quicken 2016 like in QM2007 which allows for re-reconciling is much needed. The part about changing the beginning balance in the reconciliation process does not fit in this scenario and confuses things. Reason I didn't vote.
I'm not, it's what you posted in your bulleted breakdown of the Featured Enhancement Request and that's a fact as shown below.Really the better approach in lieu of changing Quicken beginning balances for flexibility to skip recon periods for what ever reason, is NOT to change the Quicken calculated beginning balance but use the "Adjustment" feature available when you click on the gear icon. Just enter each statement period ending balance and date and click the Adjust function and done for each period you don't want to reconcile the difference which then I hope would become part of the new History report and allow you to re-reconcile at a later date if you so choose.
There's also currently a "Start Fresh" feature too you might want to check out. So Quicken did address some variables without compromising it's integrity.
The other point to consider is Quicken has to insure their support team is able to resolve issues for all users where they can hook on to the users PC and be able to trouble shoot based a straight forward formats and numbers that are generated by Quicken that are not any number a user can override Quicken with and make data unreliable.
I can't post there this since this is not in response to the team post.Most of the ideas regarding the tracking of reconciliations completed are real good but I disagree with allowing the beginning balance to be overridden by the user (I could not change the beginning balance field in 2007). Quicken needs to protect the integrity of the reconciliation process or it gets out of control and impossible to identify and or provide support for user issues/problems. No point in reconciling at all if it's not going to have a balanced continuation into the next recon as in "2007". You should be able to click on Reports or View Reconciliation History and pull up a list by beginning and ending balances and associated dates corresponding to the bank statements balances and periods showing the difference when balanced equal to 0 or if >0 and if an adjustment entry was made (how much) to balance.
Ok. You've made that abundantly clear.Most of the ideas regarding the tracking of reconciliations completed are real good but I disagree with allowing the beginning balance to be overridden by the user (I could not change the beginning balance field in 2007). Quicken needs to protect the integrity of the reconciliation process or it gets out of control and impossible to identify and or provide support for user issues/problems. No point in reconciling at all if it's not going to have a balanced continuation into the next recon as in "2007". You should be able to click on Reports or View Reconciliation History and pull up a list by beginning and ending balances and associated dates corresponding to the bank statements balances and periods showing the difference when balanced equal to 0 or if >0 and if an adjustment entry was made (how much) to balance.
Just for Reference, the way that QM2007 tracks and presents the info is as follows:Remember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
Just for the record, I just want to capture the reasons for needing this tool:Remember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
It is also helpful to see both reconciled and unreconciled transactions in the desired reconciliation period. I have occasionally cleared the wrong transaction, especially when the amounts are the same. It's very helpful to see the whole picture, all the parts of the job at hand.Remember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
I agree, in QM2007 history you see the snap shot like the one posted above. When you highlight the period and click reconcile again, you will see everything that was in the original reconciliation, but do note it will be all cleared of any check marks so you now "have to" reconcile it again. I would also like to see a column added for "adjustments" so if the user decides to opt for an adjustment entry verses finding the discrepancy, there is record in history of that stands out and easily noted (besides a cleared (checked) adjustment entry in the register which is necessary for Quicken to calculate an accurate "Starting Balance" for the next recon).Remember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
That would be really good to add!Remember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
It is a real setback to lose this featureRemember to click "Follow" at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread.
Yes it did (can't remember the first version but a very long time). Yes it does (that is where the screenshot came from). I am still on QM2007 LC.I am confused. This would be a great feature - but I do not remember QM2007 having this capability. I have not used QM2007 for several years as I went to iBank when Quicken effectively abandoned the Mac. In fact, iBank has this feature and I thought it was a great advantage that iBank had (has) over Quicken. Was it added when QM2007 was updated to run under Lion?