Missing transactions in cash account

[mse]

I am about done with transferring a number of positions into from one broker to another in Fund Manager. Along the way I accidentally did not set the default cash account for a new master portfolio, so now my Default Cash Account is missing a lot of transactions that should have been applied when stocks/options were traded in the new account.

Is there a maintenance technique to go back and retrieve missing stock and option transactions into the Default Cash Account without messing up the stock and option positions (which are correct now)?

[Mark]

Hi mse,

Sorry, no there isn't, but that would probably be a good utility to add... You're not the first person to run into this problem. Some ideas you can consider, probably based on how many transactions/investments you're talking about:

1) Manually add the cash side of the transactions
2) Use the Data Register and copy/paste the transaction. You can select one or more transactions, copy them, delete them, and then re-paste, and choose the option to apply to default cash account during the paste.
3) Export all your transactions in the sub-portfolio, and re-import them into a new sub-portfolio, this time using a default cash account. See the "Generic" export and import commands.

[mse]

Thanks -

What about closing and re-opening the investment files that contain the missing transactions? Does FM automatically apply the transactions to the cash account when you add an investment file?

[Mark]

Hi mse,

No... Opening an investment does not cause default cash account entries to be created.