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- Reconciliation Helper Tool (c) 1991 Wilson WindowWare
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-
- The Reconciliation Helper Tool allows you to reconcile your account
- without entering the Statement Window.
-
- To run the Reconciliation Helper, choose "Reconciliation Helper" from
- the Tools menu. If this item is not listed under the Tools menu, choose
- "Add..." from the Tools menu and type "BALANCE.EXE" (without quotes)
- for the name on the Add-On Tool executable.
-
- After choosing Reconciliation Helper from the Tools menu a dialog
- will appear prompting for the following:
-
- 1. Statement Closing Date. This is the last day that is covered
- on your physical back statement. So if your back statement runs
- from 10/15/91 to 11/15/91, you would type 11/15/91 in this edit box.
-
- Note: Service Fees and Bank Errors will be entered on this date
- when appropriate.
-
- 2. Starting and Ending Balances for Checking and Savings.
-
- Note: If you are not tracking Savings account transactions,
- just leave the Savings fields blank.
-
- The Starting balance will be filled in for you. If you have
- not reconciled (cleared) any transactions since your last
- statement, this number should match the starting balance on
- your physical bank statement. If this number does not match,
- simply type in the number from your bank statement.
-
- The Ending balance values should be entered based on the ending
- balance information from your physical bank statement.
-
- 3. Service fees for Checking and Savings.
-
- If you have a Service Fee for your Checking\Credit Card account
- or Savings account enter an amount into the appropriate edit box.
- Select a category from the Drop-down listbox underneath to assign
- a category for the transaction.
-
- Once you have filled in the fields with the appropriate information,
- choose the OK button.
-
- The resulting a dialog has a listing of transactions with three
- radio buttons along the top:
-
- [ ] Checking [ ] Savings [ ] Credit Card
-
- If this account is a Credit Card Account, you will not need to
- balance the Checking/Savings account options. If this account
- is a Checking/Savings account, you will not need to balance the
- Credit Card account.
-
- Steps to Balancing your Account
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-
- 1. Select which account to balance first (Checking, Savings or
- Credit Card).
-
- The next three Radio buttons are as follows:
-
- [ ] Deposits [ ] Checks [ ] Other
-
- These buttons determine which group of items will show in the
- listbox below. It is easiest to do each group completely
- before moving to the next group.
-
- 2. Choose one of the following:
-
- Deposits Check Other
-
- When a group of items displays in the listbox below, click on the
- transactions that are on your physical back statement as cleared.
-
- Hint: Check or mark the transactions on your physical bank statement
- that appear in WinCheck. This will make it easy to determine
- if a transaction was not added.
-
- The balance numbers in the lower right corner will update to reflect
- your selections in the listbox. If you select an item as cleared by
- mistake, click on the item again with the mouse to remove the
- selection bar (highlight) from the item.
-
- After you have selected all of cleared transaction items from all
- three groups (Deposits, Check, Other), check the "Difference" in
- the lower left corner of the dialog. If this amount is 0.00, you
- have a perfectly balanced your account! If this number is different,
- you can do one of two things:
-
- 1. Press "OK I'm Done" to mark the selected transactions as "Cleared".
- You will then be prompted to add the difference amount as a banking
- error.
-
- Choose Yes and WinCheck will add a Misc transaction called
- "Bank Error" for the amount of the difference.
-
- Choose No and WinCheck will mark the transactions you selected
- as cleared, but will not add the banking error transaction.
-
- 2. Press "Cancel & Leave" to go back to WinCheck so that you
- can fix transactions that are incorrect or add transactions
- from your bank statement that are not currently entered in
- WinCheck.
-
- That's It!
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