Manual Reconcile?

Richard Esser

Is there any way to do a manual reconcile in Quickin Classic where you put the prior balance .

I went back and unchecked all the transactions until i didn't have any that weren't reconciled. The prior month and the month that I am trying to reconcile show a difference of $180.70. The statement balance on 12/7/2021 $1,882.46 and the statement balance on 1/7/2021 was $2,825.74. When I try to Reconcile it it says the cleared balance is $2,825.74 but the statement ending balance shows $2,3006.46 with a difference. In the old quicken you could put prior balance in. If I could do that it would be balanced. how do I fix this. If I add the$180.72 in my register will be off that much.

NotACPA

The Prior Balance in a reconcile is the sum of all transactions (including any future dated transactions) that have an "R" in the CLR field. It's HIGHLY ill-advised to change it.

What you need to do is to pull out your old statements and find the most recent point where a statement and Q agree on the amount and then re-reconcile from there. DON"T reconcile the entire time since then, because you'll have a devil of a time trying to find any errors. Instead re-reconcile 3 or 4 months, and narrow down from there to find errors/omissions and then proceed with the next grouping

Also, have you checked the Opening Balance in the account? There's some circumstances where that can get changed, which will throw off every reconciliation thereafter. Once you determine the correct OB, store it in that transactions Memo field, so that if it gets changed again you can easily determine what it should be. You might need to open a backup (taken before this reconciliation issue began) to determine what the OB should be. Just don't open it with the same name as your production/current file, as that cause an over-write.