-=> Quoting Bruce Wilson to All <=-
 BW> I'm using Quicken 8 for DOS.
 BW> 
 BW> Since about February, I've been maintaining a cash account, to get a
 BW> handle on where all the money taken out of the checking account via
 BW> ATM and check cashing goes.
 BW> 
 BW> With the advent of the new year, I decided to do a year-end to keep
 BW> my data files a managable size, only to discover that Quicken keeps
 BW> ALL uncleared transactions from the prior period(s) and there's no
 BW> way other than transaction-by-transaction "brute force" to "clear"
 BW> cash account transactions (as opposed to the group clearing which is
 BW> part of a bank account reconciliation).  Quicken doesn't expect one
 BW> to "reconcile" a cash account, so doesn't provide the option.  What
 BW> it gives you is a forced balance adjustment rather than reconciling
 BW> (and clearing).
Bruce,
        I use a cash account for the same purpose. Here's what I did for
the past year. (I'm using QWv4 by the way). If you're like me, using your
"cash" account the way "we" do you have a pretty good stash by the end of
the year. Since I'm not as dilligent as I should be about maintaining my
credit accounts, I use my cash account to clean them up at the end of the
year. (debit or credit with my cash account to whatever the credit card
statements indicate). For the left-over amount in the cash account, I
created an account I called "trash" and deposited all the money from my
cash account into it. I then deleted the "trash" account. Only thing is, I
did this before performing the "year end" operation. This isn't a very
clean or orderly way of handling this problem, but it has worked for me so
far. Good luck.
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