help on money 2000 (!!!)

I can't retrieve a patch for this bug:
"When you import your brokerage's statement into Money 2001, you may =

notice exorbitant (and inaccurate) numbers. The value of bond purchases =
=

may be multiplied by 100. Consequently, you'll get an incorrect value in=
=

the register's total."

It was released by Microsoft with number release 25867
( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=3D25867 ), bu=
t I =

can't retrieve it.

I know that Money 2000 is an older version, but in Italy it's the last o=
ne =

released!

Thank you very much and sorry for my english...

Pinino

Dick
Wed Mar 16 12:00:25 CST 2005

p.s., your English is better than my Italian!

<gra-pini@libero.it> wrote in message
news:opsnqnl0od53bemd@ws09.cfosim.it...
I can't retrieve a patch for this bug:
"When you import your brokerage's statement into Money 2001, you may
notice exorbitant (and inaccurate) numbers. The value of bond purchases
may be multiplied by 100. Consequently, you'll get an incorrect value in
the register's total."

It was released by Microsoft with number release 25867
( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=25867 ), but I
can't retrieve it.

I know that Money 2000 is an older version, but in Italy it's the last one
released!

Thank you very much and sorry for my english...

Pinino

Dick
Wed Mar 16 11:59:55 CST 2005

You might need to check with Microsoft in Italy.

I'm betting that Microsoft considers any version of M2K unsupported, even if
it's an orphaned version like the Italian one. This seems sad and wrong, but
there may not be much you can do about it but suffer and remember for the
next time you face a choice of buying something from Microsoft or somebody
else.

<gra-pini@libero.it> wrote in message
news:opsnqnl0od53bemd@ws09.cfosim.it...
I can't retrieve a patch for this bug:
"When you import your brokerage's statement into Money 2001, you may
notice exorbitant (and inaccurate) numbers. The value of bond purchases
may be multiplied by 100. Consequently, you'll get an incorrect value in
the register's total."

It was released by Microsoft with number release 25867
( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=25867 ), but I
can't retrieve it.

I know that Money 2000 is an older version, but in Italy it's the last one
released!

Thank you very much and sorry for my english...

Pinino

via_newsgroup
Wed Mar 16 12:13:29 CST 2005

In microsoft.public.money, gra-pini@libero.it wrote:

>I can't retrieve a patch for this bug:
>"When you import your brokerage's statement into Money 2001, you may
>notice exorbitant (and inaccurate) numbers. The value of bond purchases
>may be multiplied by 100. Consequently, you'll get an incorrect value in
>the register's total."


I do not know about that patch.

How does Money work now without the patch? What price is being
downloaded? In the US version, the price is a percent of "par" or
face value. A bond worth 800 with a face value of 1000 would have
price 80. To enter a bond purchased at the that price, one would
enter Quantity 1000 with Total 800. It is usually best Money compute
the price.

If things work differently for you, it may be possible to adjust the
Buy transaction to work around the problem.

gra-pini
Thu Mar 17 07:50:48 CST 2005

This is an example of imported transaction:

!Type:Invst
D09/03/2005
T341049,33
NSell
YALLIANZ AG
I97,86
Q3500
O1460,67
LCVE
M
^

In this case, Money ignore decimal and consider
T34104933
I9786
O146067

(usually T =3D Q*I+O, but I can set also T0 and Money accept it)

I checked my international settings and they are right.
Money doesn't work also if I change decimal point from "," to "."

via_newsgroup
Thu Mar 17 09:33:56 CST 2005

In microsoft.public.money, gra-pini@libero.it wrote:

>This is an example of imported transaction:
>
>!Type:Invst
>D09/03/2005
>T341049,33
>NSell
>YALLIANZ AG
>I97,86
>Q3500
>O1460,67
>LCVE
>M
>^
>
>In this case, Money ignore decimal and consider
>T34104933
>I9786
>O146067
>
>(usually T = Q*I+O, but I can set also T0 and Money accept it)
>
>I checked my international settings and they are right.
>Money doesn't work also if I change decimal point from "," to "."

So it is not price quotes, but transactions. Does the problem only
occurs on bonds, or does it occur on any QIF transaction download?

One possibility is to find or make a program/script that changes ","
to "." in the QIF file before you import to Money. For experiment,
see if changing "," to "." in the QIF file helps.

gra-pini
Fri Mar 18 02:19:23 CST 2005

> So it is not price quotes, but transactions. Does the problem only
> occurs on bonds, or does it occur on any QIF transaction download?
Every transaction.

> One possibility is to find or make a program/script that changes ","
> to "." in the QIF file before you import to Money. For experiment,
> see if changing "," to "." in the QIF file helps.
I've already tryed it. The problem still remain.
I'm thinking it's a blind road...

via_newsgroup
Fri Mar 18 09:55:22 CST 2005

In microsoft.public.money, gra-pini@libero.it wrote:

>> So it is not price quotes, but transactions. Does the problem only
>> occurs on bonds, or does it occur on any QIF transaction download?
>Every transaction.
>
>> One possibility is to find or make a program/script that changes ","
>> to "." in the QIF file before you import to Money. For experiment,
>> see if changing "," to "." in the QIF file helps.
>I've already tryed it. The problem still remain.
>I'm thinking it's a blind road...

I am afraid you may be right, and fixing the transaction by hand may
be the easiest.

Does your broker let you limit the dates of the imported QIF, or
does that problem transactions continue for months? If you can limit
the dates, the problem would be less.

It would be possible to make a program/script to remove transactions
older than a specified date from the QIF file.