I am in the process of entering 21 years of Investment history for my
IRA. Its not as bad as it sounds, 2 - 6 entries each month. I first
entered the transactions from 1994 to current (plus pre-94 investments
I still own) and adjusted the opening balance in the Money Market Fund
for December 1993 and everything was find. Once I found the box with
the 1983 to 1993 statements, I started entering those transactions. All
is find until I get to September 19, 1991 where I did a sell of a Money
Market Fund to buy some stock in IBP, Inc. for $3000. Although my
8/31/91 report shows over $5100 in the Money Market-Money thinks I have
$845 (I got this through trial and error). I believe this is caused
from reconciled the 12/31/2004 balance. I am hoping that I can undo the
reconcilation.
The second problem is more interesting (smiles). As I am entering the
dividends, Money has on occassion gone through and taken dividends in
two investments and change them from an inflow to an outflow (like I am
paying the Corporation). It is not all dividends for those investments,
but a good portion of one and a few in the second one. This problem did
stop when I reconciled as I discussed above.
Lession learned, start with your first statement (or oldest) when you
want to enter history. I believe if I did this I wouldn't have the
problems I am experiencing or perhaps introduced another set of
problems.