I wish I used institutions that used signed numbers. I most often saw a
column of tags -- deposit/withdrawal, charge/payment, etc. -- and a
column of positive numbers. I made a few simple spreadsheets that read
the various .csv downloads and "translated" it into a format that was
easily
Note that both columns could be tagged as "Deposit" as is the case with
Citi CC. The column containing charges to the card are Positive but the
payments column is negative. <>.
I presume that someone has a case where both should be tagged as
"Withdrawl".
--Steve
On 9/12/20 7:21 AM, Geert
Greg,
The terms "Deposit" and "Withdrawal" in the csv importer can be a bit confusing
unfortunately.
The terms map well for bank statements using two columns to display amounts,
where both
columns list positive numbers. It maps less well for credit card statements
(interpretation would
be
Greg,
Usually, when your bank or credit card company creates a CSV file for you,
either deposits are positive and withdrawals are negative, or vice versa.
Whichever you see, you then call the amounts deposits or withdrawals when
performing the import, and GnuCash assigns the value to the Debit or
Hello,
I'm new to Gnucash. I have it set up as a checkbook. I imported a csv file,
but it put all of the amounts of the deposits and withdrawals only in the
deposit column. I can't figure out how get it to recognize deposit amounts
separately from withdrawal amounts. I even made separate csv
