Problem reconciling an account

Question

I am reconciling my AMEX account and a beginning cleared balance keeps showing up.  It's the same account I've been manually reconciling with paper bills for 15 years and a few months back I finally broke down and started downloading transactions.  I have tried to un reconcile the previous months transactions and then the cleared balance starts with the month before that.  Every prior month I un reconcile, the beginning balance goes to the prior month.  I'm three months back and it keeps doing this.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Sherlock · Accepted Answer

The Cleared Balance should be the total of the transactions in the register marked as Reconciled and the transactions checked in the Reconcile window.