We've just trained ourselves to enter the data manually. It IS possible to download into GC; I just haven't used it.
You can create separate asset accounts -- we also have more than one checking account, and we just have them as separate accounts and enter the data separately. You can name them whatever makes sense to you: "Barry's Business Checking", "Joint Checking", "Susan's Business Checking" -- for example. If you mean in reports, all reports are configurable; most (if not all) of them allow you to choose the accounts on which to report. On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 11:33 AM barry milliken <barry.milli...@outlook.com> wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > When I said personal accounting I oversimplified. > My wife and I both have independent consulting businesses. > That means we have 3 bank accounts and six credit cards for a total of 9 > "accounts" (transaction sources) > Managing downloads manually would be too cumbersome. > How does Gnucash allow me display my source accounts separately? > Thanks > > > Barry Milliken > ------------------------------ > *From:* R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, January 8, 2024 11:17:58 AM > *To:* barry milliken <barry.milli...@outlook.com> > *Cc:* gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Moving from Quicken > > I, too, left Quicken about 8 years ago and changed to GnuCash. I had a > slight familiarity with double-entry accounting, and I've seldom had any > issues with GnuCash. > > I thought about importing Quicken data, but then decided against it... I > reasoned that if I really did need to reference something I had in Quicken, > I could open those files. In fact, I think I opened Quicken two or three > times in the first couple of years, and haven't touched it since. It's just > something to think about. > > I had trouble getting the downloads from financial institutions to work, > so I do them manually and regularly reconcile. I don't really miss this > function, but it is possible. > > As you will have heard, GnuCash doesn't have "categories"; it has > "accounts". At the risk of offending a great multitude of GnuCash users, > from the practical point of view, GnuCash accounts are very much like > categories in Quicken. I know that they are not really the same thing, but > as a former Quicken user, they are. > > In my experience, the one thing I had trouble with in GnuCash were the > reports - most of them seem to need some kind of tweaking to get them to do > what is wanted. Here's another thing to think about: instead of assigning > accounts as "tax deductible", if you have an account whose transactions are > deductible (such as charitable giving, you can create a report for just > these accounts. You just need the discipline to only enter deductible items > in such accounts. I do know that there is a US tax setup feature, but I > haven't made full use of that -- and the report using the accounts I want > to know about for tax reasons works well enough for my needs. > > RL > > On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM barry milliken <barry.milli...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > I've been frustrated using Quicken for years. Maybe GNUcash will do what > I want. > > My list of functions is small: > I use Quicken for personal accounting, mainly to categorize transactions > for tax reporting. > Can GNUcash do these things: > - import data from a Quicken QDF file as a starting point. > - allow downloads of transactions from my bank accounts and credit cards. > - allow me to assign a category to each transaction. > - create categories (or import quicken categories) and assign each as tax > deductible or not. > - report and summarize tax deductible transaction at tax time. > > That's all I care about. > > Thanks > > > Barry Milliken > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
