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Posted by Tom Kehrwald on January 02, 2007 at 11:04:18:

In Reply to: Re: Confusion on cash settlement accounts posted by Mark on January 01, 2007 at 20:58:56:

: : I am using FM 8.0.1. It is an excellent product, which I have used and appreciated for several years. I now have a problem with FM retrieving transactions into the wrong cash account.

: : I have two Fidelity accounts, which are represented in FM as two subportfolios of a single portfolio. X is a normal brokerage account and has FDRXX as its cash account. Y is a retirement cash management account and has a different instance of FDRXX as its cash account. There are separate investment files in FM, one for each. Today when I retrieved transactions for Y I see a preview of what I expected - namely credit for pension deposit, debit for insurance payment, debit for transfer to my regular checking account, and dividend distribution for interest earned. When I select them all and go on I find that the dividends are posted to Y's FDRXX but no other postings. However, X's FDRXX contains the reinvestment of the dividends. X's FDRXX also contains the credit for the pension deposit and the debits for the insurance payment and transfer to my checking account.

: : This has been happening for some time and I ignored getting to the bottom of it. However now I want to balance the yearend and clean this up for the future.

: : Am I missing a step or is FM getting confused? Thanks.

: Hi Tom,

: This sounds like you may have the default cash accounts assigned incorrectly between X and Y? Check the sub-portfolio properties on both X and Y. Look at the "Default Cash Account" assignment, and make sure that the "Show All" button is not checked. It is possible to assign a default cash account for a sub-portfolio to an investment from another sub-portfolio. If you turn off "Show All" here, it will only list investments from this sub-portfolio, so you can make sure you are picking the right FDRXX investment.

: Thanks,
: Mark
: --

Thank you, Mark. I did have "Show all" marked on the properties of FDRXX for Y. I removed it and retrieved transactions into the right account.

However, I do not get the distributions (monthly interest) reinvested in the cash account. I'm sure I am missing some flag somewhere, but I haven't found it. Sorry for the stupid question.

Tom



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