On Saturday 25 January 2003 18:48, Derek Atkins wrote: > I disagree. When you are importing a TXN you necessarily know the > "source account" for the transaction -- the only question is the > destination account. I think using a register is overkill.
Perhaps. Personnally, in gnucash, my main bank account is splitted into subaccount in which I can see if I have spend all the money that I though to use one month. This is why, when I import OFX transaction from my bank, I want to say which of these virtual subaccounts is the source of the transaction. The destination is then either an income or outcome subaccount. > > > In this case, you could also select different source and destination > > (sub)accounts for each OFX transaction which is not possible currently. > > Why would you want to select a different source account? I'm explaining that above. > I admit that > the importer does not deal with split transactions, but IMHO you > should pre-enter those transactions by hand and use the importer to > mark that transaction as "cleared". I didn't know this way of doing. I planned to use OFX as main source of data to complete my financial data and not to check them. Perhaps it is wrong. > > IMHO, the importers are there to: > 1) move transactions from another financial app into GnuCash (e.g. > changing from Quicken to GnuCash), or > > 2) reconcile your accounts with an online source. So my way of doing is not good. Sorry. > > IMHO, importers are not really meant for TRUE accounting using the > online source as the primary... Your bank does not know what you > bought from KMart -- it only knows that you paid KMart $55.24. > Accounting, however, is generally by type-of-purchase, not > location-of-purchase. I would be very surprised if your bank had that > information in your downloaded txns. Of course. This is why I wanted to change source and destination account of each OFX transaction before clicking the "OK" button of the import window. Thanks for your explanations, Laurent. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
