Investment Account Discrepancies?

Jennalynn

I have a synced Fidelity account that shows big discrepancies between Quicken and the real data (both in terms of cash and other holdings), going back a few years. It seems like it would be a lot of work to manually go through every Fidelity transaction and every Quicken transaction and try to figure out where things diverged.

I have no idea when the problem started — I haven't done anything special, just regularly syncing my accounts to download new transactions.

I guess I could delete the account in Quicken and re-sync from scratch, but (1) I'm not sure that would go back to the beginning of time and (2) I would then lose all the transfers from other accounts to/from Fidelity.

How can I easily reconcile accounts that get off like this?
Something that won't take hours of line by line review?

NotACPA

How about going back, say a year, and comparing Q to the reports from Fidelity? Or 2 years? Until one finds where the discrepancy started.

Then you could start narrowing down the time frame until the issue is discovered.

I suspect that it results from either a duplicated transaction, or a deleted transaction. But I can't rule out a mis-input.