Thanks for the helpful tip. I am in the same boat as you with my Bank/ CC limitations. We'll see what Kevin/others think, but in the meantime this will help with at least my bank statement.
Thanks. -Scott On Jan 3, 3:13 pm, Blair Watkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, > > In the meanwhile, I have used a feature within MoneyWell to helped me > find lost or duplicated transactions. Both my paper statement and my > checking account on-line have a historical end-of-day balance report. > > Using MoneyWell's end of day balance (found at the bottom of the > screen when you select a transaction), I can compare these balances on > these days and figure out more quickly where the problem is. This > allows me look at only, say 8 days, over the last month to find the > problem--a lot better than sifting through 100s of transactions. > > Of course this only works on my checking accounts, since my credit > cards don't have a similar reporting feature. Using this tool, I've > found it much easier to reconcile the checking accounts than the > credit cards. > > Blair > > On Jan 3, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Scott B. wrote: > > > > > Kevin: > > > Have you thought about expanding the function of the reconcile > > calculator? As an example, I recently had a situation where My > > transaction list was $80 off from my statement summary. I did the math > > and manually scrolled through all of the transactions for the period > > until I found some recurring $80 transactions and then looked into > > which one was correct. > > > In this situation it would have been nice to have the reconcile > > function calculate an $80 difference and then highlight all of the > > transactions in the list that have a transaction value of $80 for easy > > spotting and investigation. Beyond this, it would be very interesting > > to have MW do some quick math and find in the transaction list > > transactions that equal the difference total. For example, if the > > difference between the statement total and the transaction total was > > $85, MW might subtly/not-so-subtly highlight an $80 and $5 transaction > > to help the user find discrepancies in the transaction list. > > > This feature would obviously become more and more useful as the manual > > search became more and more difficult such as with a greater number of > > transactions in the list period or more realistic transaction values. > > For instance, take 100+ transactions for the period with a difference > > total of 168.23 which may be difficult to track down manually. MW > > would highlight three transactions whose total adds up to 168.23, such > > as $44.26, $82.67, and $$41.30 (or four or five if that were the > > case). > > > Just my 2 cents (excuse the pun). . . . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
