Michael - from reading what he did, I think the problem may have been
caused by importing checking, savings, and credit cards separately instead
of all together.
Thus, the checking import couldn't find a matching transaction and thus
used "imbalance" -- and the same thing happened with the savings
If you have a lot of these, it may be better to start over.
Your checking-to-savings transfer should be ONE transaction with the money
coming out of the checking and going into the savings (I am avoiding using
the terms "credit" and "debit" because some people find them confusing).
Anyway, you wil
As Michael stated, you don't truly understand double entry bookkeeping.
During the import process, you specified the main checking/savings/cc
account. But it appears you failed to identify the other account for
each transaction. If you had done that, there is a fairly good chance that:
1. The i
Fundamentals this is double entry bookkeeping. Every transaction
has at least TWO accounts associated with it, at least one debit and at
least one credit.
Read the introduction/tutorial as many times as necessary for you to
absorb this concept, at least two accounts. Failure to specify th
I'm trying to figure out the very basics of managing a checking account,
savings account and credit card in GnuCash. I downloaded a csv of all
checking transactions for a year and imported them. They look good and
match up with my check register. Then I downloaded my savings for a year
into a s
