Null Account and more
Perry Smith
pedz at easesoftware.net
Fri Jul 23 10:56:31 EDT 2004
Sorry... Another question:
The accounts with no name have:
<act:name/>
Instead of what I would expect as:
<act:name></act:name>
I'm not an XML buff so that may be correct. If not, I'll look into
that problem as well while I'm at it.
On Jul 23, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Perry Smith was heard to
>> remark:
>>>
>>> When gnucash imported this, it created a sub account under "Interest"
>>> called "Fidelity Ultra" and Fidelity Ultra has a subaccount with no
>>> name. I can see this in the xml as well as the Accounts window.
>>> There
>>
>> Possibly a bug in the qif importer ???
>
> Could be. That code is a pile of hairballs...
>
>>> "Interest" in quicken as well as gnucash is an expense but Fidelity
>>> Ultra is an income account and the account with no name is an income
>>
>> Bad. 'Fidelity Ultra' should be an asset account of some kind, not
>> an income account. You cannot use income/expense accounts to hold
>> anything of value. Income/expense accounts are meant only to record
>> income or expenses, for use in cash-flow type reports.
>
> Not necessarily... What should happen, IIRC, is that you'll get
> an account tree that looks something like this:
>
> Assets
> +- Fidelity Ultra
> +- (stocks here)
>
> Income
> +- Interest
> +- Fidelity Ultra
>
> So in essence we'd get the interest income as a transfer from
> Income:Interest:Fidelity Ultra -> Assets:Fidelity Ultra.
>
> -derek
>
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