To check your brokerage statement, find the balance in an account.
To get a table of the daily cash balances if we sold our holdings each day, press Daily Cash. While building the table, if a stock has a dta record and a san file record, check Use dta data so that the dta record will be chosen if it exists. Uncheck it if you wish to examine san files first.
When viewing the cash balance table, if a certain stock is missing data due to a holiday, while other stocks have data for this day, Holiday will be checked. You can view the table without the holidays by checking Holidays.
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Press Invested to update the account with the correct cash balance.
To verify a statement, press Statement Date, and enter the date of the statement.
If you feel there is an error, you can do a further check by looking at Activity.txt (press Activity from the main menu). You will see a list of transactions this month. This will help you if you put a transaction in the wrong account. This is a brief list of stocks, dates, and number of shares.
If you wish not to include Trades Pending Settlement with the calculated balance, check Reinvest in the StockTrades table. Be sure to uncheck after you verified your statement!