Bank Genie
Software for Managing Bank Accounts

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Bank Genie 4 and Bank Genie Pro 4
Last updated: 28th February 2018

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Index

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

User Guide Options

Bank Accounts

Bank Groups

Categories

Category Groups

Tags

Manage Transactions

Standing Orders

Process Standing Orders

Online & Downloads

Transaction Analyser

Net Worth

P&L Years and Groups

P&L Reports

Invoices

Password Protection

Database Protection

Quick Backups

Backups (with history)

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack

Importing Data

Broken Transfers

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

Sponsored Links

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Manually fixing Broken Transfer transactions
Screen BS422S03 (with screenshots)

To display this screen:
Click the Manually Match button in the initial screen of the program Broken Transfers - BS422

In this section:

About this screen
In this screen, there are two lists
Screenshot
In the list at the top of the screen

  • one or more debit sides of transfers may appear (Broken Transfers only)
  • The debit clicked in the previous screen will be included
  • The debit transfers will all be from Bank A to Bank B - as in the transaction clicked in the previous screen

In the list at the bottom of the screen

  • one or more credit sides of transfers may appear (Broken Transfers only)
  • The credit transfers will all be from Bank B to Bank A - possible matches to the transaction clicked in the previous screen

A number of cases are possible and can be fixed
Case A - the simple case

  • Screenshot
  • One debit in top List
  • One credit in bottom list
  • Debit transfer amount= Credit Transfer amount
  • Fix button will be enabled
  • Click the Fix button

Case B - a Transfer with splits

  • Screenshot
  • One debit in top List
  • Two or more credits in bottom list
  • Debit transfer amount= Total of the Credit Transfer
  • a Split & Fix button will be enabled
  • Click the Edit button to view more details of the transactions if necessary
  • If you know this is a split transfer on the credit side, where both split elements were transferred from B to A then:
  • Click the Split & Fix button

When a transaction is split, say into amount 60 and amount 40, and both split elements are made into transfers from Account B to A, Quicken aggregates the transferred amount in Account A.
Thus when imported, there will be one Debit transfer element in account A with an amount= 100.
Bank Genie does not allow aggregated amounts.
Every credit element must have a matching debit element on the other side of the transfer.
The Split & Fix feature creates the “missing” debit element in Account A, to conform with the Bank Genie method of handling such a case.

Case C - a Transfer with splits- The converse of Case B

  • Two or more debits in top List
  • One credits in bottom list
  • Total of the Debit transfer amounts= Total of the single Credit Transfer amount
  • a Split & Fix button will be enabled
  • Click the Edit button to view more details of the transactions if necessary
  • If you know this is a split transfer on the debit side, where both split elements were transferred from A to B then:
  • Click the Split & Fix button

Case D - numerous debits and/or numerous credits

  • can you spot any debits which have matches in the credit list?
    If Yes:
  • “Eliminate” unwanted debits or credits by using the Hide button
  • Selecting a transaction and clicking the hide button will NOT delete the transaction
    It is quite safe.
  • If you hide the wrong transaction, use the Show all button to display all debits or credits again. Start again
  • Depending on the type of transfer you isolate, fix the Broken Transfer by using one of the methods described in Case A, Case B or Case C

Case E - Transfers to an account with a foreign currency
(After importing data from Quicken)
Screenshot
After import, you must set the currencies for your Bank Accounts (described as follows) before using this program to identify and fix Broken Transfers between accounts with different currencies.
The currency of imported Bank accounts cannot be determined in an import from Quicken
Use the program My Bank Accounts - BS403 to set the currency for each of your Bank Accounts.
Bank Genie allows you to manage any number of accounts and any number of currencies Screenshot

  • Screenshot
  • If necessary (when there are multiple transfers on the same day) “Eliminate” unwanted debits or credits by using the Hide button to isolate a Multi Currency transfer
  • Does the Debit and Credit match look OK?
  • If OK, Click the Split & Fix button

Case F - a Transfer with splits- Plus and Minus spilt elements

  • Screenshot
  • One debit (with aggregated transfer total) in top List
  • Multi credits in bottom list, with plus and minus elements
  • Total of the Debit transfer amount= Total of the Credit Transfer amounts
  • a Split & Fix button will be enabled
  • Click the Edit button to view more details of the transactions if necessary
  • If you know this is a split transfer on the debit side, where both split elements were transferred from A to B then:
  • Click the Split & Fix button

NOTE: The converse, with multi debits in the top list and a single credit in the bottom list can also be fixed by this process.

Case G - When there are no matches
This will be the case if the other side of a transfer does not exist.
Examples:

  • the account on the other side of the transfer has not been imported
    Make sure you import all account in a Quicken dataset
  • The other side of the transaction has been deleted manually

Do nothing with such transactions.

Screens (leading to screenshots) for program BS422

  1. BS422S01 - The initial screen
  2. Screen BS422S02
  3. Screen BS422S03 - Manually fixing broken transfers - This page

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