Money Account Balance Discrepancy with Bank Balance

I've been using Microsoft Money since 2002. My current version is 2007
Premium. My checking account balance in Money is no longer in synch with
my Bank's balance. I regularly download/reconcile my account information.
My checking account balance was last reconciled with Money on 12/24/07. All
of my transactions matched perfectly. Then on 1/1/08 I noticed a
discrepancy between my online account balance and the Microsoft Money
account balance. The discrepancy is for $387.72. That happens to be the
exact same amount as a starting balance adjustment I had to do on one of my
credit cards several months ago. Since I have a similar error for an
identical amount of money I'm thinking the error is with Money. On the
credit card account it wasn't a problem since the adjustment was a credit.
I've had to do starting balance adjustments on my credit cards in the past
and it was never a big deal. But I've never had a discrepancy like this
with my checking account.

All transactions from my bank and Money are identical and other than the
balance discrepancy there's no obvious math calculation error. I was able
to reconcile my account today but had to do a starting balance adjustment
because of the balance discrepancy. Any idea as to why I would get such a
weird error? And how to prevent this sort of thing from ever happening
again?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Cal
Sat Jan 12 13:43:47 CST 2008

In microsoft.public.money, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

>I've been using Microsoft Money since 2002. My current version is 2007
>Premium. My checking account balance in Money is no longer in synch with
>my Bank's balance. I regularly download/reconcile my account information.
>My checking account balance was last reconciled with Money on 12/24/07. All
>of my transactions matched perfectly. Then on 1/1/08 I noticed a
>discrepancy between my online account balance and the Microsoft Money
>account balance. The discrepancy is for $387.72. That happens to be the
>exact same amount as a starting balance adjustment I had to do on one of my
>credit cards several months ago. Since I have a similar error for an
>identical amount of money I'm thinking the error is with Money. On the
>credit card account it wasn't a problem since the adjustment was a credit.
>I've had to do starting balance adjustments on my credit cards in the past
>and it was never a big deal. But I've never had a discrepancy like this
>with my checking account.

First, make sure the registers don't give a different balance when
the view is changed to show only unreconciled transactions or in
some other way.


>
>All transactions from my bank and Money are identical and other than the
>balance discrepancy there's no obvious math calculation error. I was able
>to reconcile my account today but had to do a starting balance adjustment
>because of the balance discrepancy. Any idea as to why I would get such a
>weird error? And how to prevent this sort of thing from ever happening
>again?

I would think you could compare balances at various times to spot
the divergence.