Hi all:
New user questions follow, I'm afraid...
I have no trouble following the directions in the wiki for migrating from
Quicken. I made the QIF file, imported it into GnuCash, and watched it very
unhelpfully create 100 different accounts. The instructions do mentions
this, and it's ability to
Hi Scott,
This took some getting used to when I moved from Quicken 7 years or so
ago. The categories become accounts. This is required for double entry
accounting and makes sense. When you pay your electric bill, money moves
from checking to the electric company. GNUCash has to show money movi
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Behalf Of Scott Traurig
Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2022 7:45 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] New user: how to migrate Quicken checking account as a single,
flat, checking account
Hi all:
New user questions follow, I'm afraid...
I have no trouble following the directions in th
This is a common concern whenever someone (including me) is migrating to
Gnucash. As is noted elsewhere, it's a conceptual change based on
Quicken Category => Gnucash Account. What I realized when I converted
years and years of data over is just how terrible I was at maintaining
some sort of co
I do understand double-entry accounting and that it is the GnuCash paradigm.
What I didn't understand is that on the import GnuCash did create the
requisite checking account, plus all the expense accounts. I did not see
the checking account as it was lost in a sea of expense accounts.
Now that I'
An easy way to "move" many entries is to *delete* the offending account and
let GnuCash move it to another account.
Say you have utilities:water as an account but also utilities:Watercompany.
Then you simply delete one and ask GnuCash to move all transactions to the
other. All in one fell swoop.
On 04 December 2022 at 11:54, Scott Traurig said:
> I do understand double-entry accounting and that it is the GnuCash
> paradigm.
>
> What I didn't understand is that on the import GnuCash did create the
> requisite checking account, plus all the expense accounts. I did not see
> the checking ac
Nope, sorry, you gents did not understand my question.
I don't have any unwanted accounts. Indeed, all of my categories in Quicken
were well thought out and organized, and well replicated as separate
expense accounts in GnuCash via the import process.
But with some 100 different, well organized a
Scott,
If I understand correctly, what you expected was a chart of accounts with
one asset account for checking and all other accounts lumped under
expenses. Maybe one account for income.
You should be able to get to that result with an import from Quicken but
it may take some or perhaps a lot
That was the politest "No, you are stuck doing it manually" response I've
ever seen ;-)
Thanks,
Scott
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:25 PM David Carlson
wrote:
> Scott,
>
> If I understand correctly, what you expected was a chart of accounts with
> one asset account for checking and all other accoun
Let's get this cleared up:
You're telling us that *all* of your expense accounts are *not* under
the top-level 'Expenses' account but exist as each their own top-level
account? (but maybe of 'type' Expense)
If so, that sounds like an error (I'll hazard, user) in the import.
The easiest thing
What you need to do is start a new file and position those expenses
correctly under the the top expense level during the import process. That
is not really very hard with a couple of expendable tries to see how it
works.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 12:17 PM Scott Traurig wrote:
> Nope, sorry, you ge
So I did the import wrong. Crap. Too late, I already gutted it out and
manually rearranged it all!
Thanks,
Scott
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Scott
You can edit the accounts and in the dialoguechange the account type to Expense
and the parent to the top level expenses account.Unfortunately its a one at a
time operation
David Cousens
On Sun, 2022-12-04 at 13:39 -0500, Scott Traurig wrote:
> So I did the import wrong. Crap. Too late, I
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