credit card problem

[Steven.Smith]

Hi Kate

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, leonatra wrote:
> IF I understand you correctly your checking account's total UNPAID
> charges were $ 592.11. When the statement arrived, it showed $ 475.20,
> this implies an unrecorded charge (by the credit card company as of the
> date of your statement) in the amount of 116.91. The difference of
> 233.82 which you show is DOUBLE that amount. The reconciled balance
> would be zero if you would NOT include the $ 116.91 in your balancing
> process. Kate
This isn't quite right.  There were 592.11 in new charges and
they had received one payment of 475.20.  The -475.20 was the 
balence owed the previous month.  I've noticed that typically the
difference is twice the difference between the payments and the
new charges, but I can't figure out where it's comming from.
>From the account summary on the bill:
Previous balence       475.20
payments               475.20
purchases/cash/debits  592.11
new balence            592.11

I just noticed something that seems very strange to me.  As
soon as the Reconcile Dialog comes up, the Reconciled Balence
entry contains the Starting Balence.  This seems wrong to me.
Is it??

I appreciate the help.

Thanks
Steve S.
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Steven Smith                    steven.smith@alcatel.com
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