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!