Thanks for the help - now about importing

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:04 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Quoting Matt Burkhardt <mlb at imparisystems.com>:
> > > I'm trying to get a fairly large checking register in from Quicken. 
> > > I'm just pulling in from 1/1/2007 to present, but I can't get the
> > > reconciliation to work.
> > >
> > > For example, I had a starting balance of $164 - which I put in when I
> > > create the account and then point the QIF file to load it into there. 
> > > I then try and do a reconcile and it says that I have a beginning
> > > balance of -$2,500, so it will never let me reconcile.  How do I fix
> > > this?
> >
> > So you're saying that on 12/31/2006 you had $164 in the account?
>
> Yes
>
> > What are you putting as your reconcile date and the ending balance
> > at that date?
>
> I've tried 1/23/2007 - which is the date of my checking statement with
> the amount shown (about $200) and I've also tried 1/1/2007 with $164 as
> the ending balance.  But both give me that huge negative amount as the
> starting balance.
>

Hi,

What happens if you ignore the starting balance?
Can you get the ending balance to be correct?

(it has been said on this list before, that the starting balance can be safely 
ignored in the reconcile dialog - only the end is important.)

HTH,
Maf.