balances that don't make sense

I've had Money 2002 Deluxe since it came out. I've gone
through the setup thing at least 20 times and I still
have problems getting any statements that make sense.
For example, I recently did the setup again and for my
checking account at Citibank, I entered the amount from
my last statement. Later, I downloaded my statement from
Citibank. Everything seemed fine. The amount in my
register actually matched what my online Citibank
statement said. A day later, my Money register shows
that I have a LOT more money than what I have in my
account per my Citibank online. When I went to Citibank
online and downloaded everything since the previous
download, the number in my Money register changed
somewhat but I still have a large difference between my
Money register and what I show online with Citibank.

On the flipside, my Amex account shows that I have a
negative balance with them (the number is red and in
parentheses) even though I do background banking with
Amex and I currently owe a small amount.

Why the disparity between my online account and Money???
THis is driving me crazy! Thanks for any help on this.

Arge
Thu Jan 22 10:32:26 CST 2004

Hi Discouraged

I know that a lot of people want to take advantage of everything money has
to offer, but I have never felt comfortable allowing a "software" to balance
my accounts through downloads. This is just one of the reasons I take an
extra "10 minutes" per month, per account to manually balance it.

Others in this newsgroup with much more experience with Money than I, have
reservations about downloading.

Bob
"Discouraged Money User" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:23e201c3e0f7$0399a250$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I've had Money 2002 Deluxe since it came out. I've gone
> through the setup thing at least 20 times and I still
> have problems getting any statements that make sense.
> For example, I recently did the setup again and for my
> checking account at Citibank, I entered the amount from
> my last statement. Later, I downloaded my statement from
> Citibank. Everything seemed fine. The amount in my
> register actually matched what my online Citibank
> statement said. A day later, my Money register shows
> that I have a LOT more money than what I have in my
> account per my Citibank online. When I went to Citibank
> online and downloaded everything since the previous
> download, the number in my Money register changed
> somewhat but I still have a large difference between my
> Money register and what I show online with Citibank.
>
> On the flipside, my Amex account shows that I have a
> negative balance with them (the number is red and in
> parentheses) even though I do background banking with
> Amex and I currently owe a small amount.
>
> Why the disparity between my online account and Money???
> THis is driving me crazy! Thanks for any help on this.

via_newsgroup
Thu Jan 22 10:50:43 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, Discouraged Money User wrote:

> When I went to Citibank
>online and downloaded everything since the previous
>download, the number in my Money register changed
>somewhat but I still have a large difference between my
>Money register and what I show online with Citibank.
>
>On the flipside, my Amex account shows that I have a
>negative balance with them (the number is red and in
>parentheses) even though I do background banking with
>Amex and I currently owe a small amount.

Try the simple first; open Money with Start->Run and entering
"msmoney -s" without the quotes into the box.

I would then look for duplicate transactions.