A Better Way to Manage Your Everyday Money - Book - Page 103
3. Close the Credit Card Activity window and open the downloaded transaction file in the
Reconcile Credit Card Statement window to do the reconciliation by:
○ if needed, selecting the closing and payment due dates (these dates are
automatically populated and are normally correct)
○ entering the new balance amount from the statement
○ entering the total of any fees or interest charged on the statement
○ opening the downloaded transaction file
4. When the difference is 0.00 (which it normally becomes as soon as the transaction file is
opened), click on the OK button.
5. Put the receipts in the shred bag where they stay until the next annual free shred day
which is the Saturday after April 15th. I have to go through the shred bag occasionally to
find a receipt for a return.
PerNetFlow can use the transaction file from any credit card company. The first time you
download a file you create a transaction file map, as discussed in Chapter 3, which tells the
program how to extract needed information from the CSV file.
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