gnucash reconcile annoyance

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

Lars,

See, that really sucks. Its way too much work. There are more (similar)
When I import a qif file, all of the entries say "unspecified account".
I have to manually enter in a account, even though I pointed the qif
file at the appropriate account. I hadnt used the program for awhile,
and with the new version, this whole layer of complexity was added,
which makes the program unwieldy. The program after which Gnucash was
modeled, Quicken, was named so for a reason ;)

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 15:06, lmb wrote:
> On 2001-11-02T14:55:13,
>    Christopher Fonnesbeck <chris@fonnesbeck.net> said:
> 
> > Thanks Lars,
> > 
> > It does this for every entry. Of course they wont balance to zero, but I
> > dont want to have to reconcile every time I enter a transaction! I only
> > want to reconcile when I have my statement in hand to compare.
> 
> No; your transactions have to "balance" to zero; ie every cent you spend on an
> account has to come in from another account and vice versa. Thats the trick
> behind accounting; took me a while to get used to, too - it is like
> mathematics, but weirdly twisted, not what a proper computer geek understands
> ;-)
> 
> -- 
> "I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
>         -- Margeret Thatcher
> 
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Christopher J. Fonnesbeck 
Ph.D. Student

Georgia Co-operative Wildlife Unit
University of Georgia 
Athens, GA 30602

email: chris@fonnesbeck.net
       cfonnesb@stat.uga.edu
Yahoo: fonnesbeck_chris

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