Reconciling after QIF import; Quicken conversion

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: 18 Oct 2001 13:22:38 EDT
Roland Roberts said:

>>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Brown-Bayliss <on_the_net@clear.net.nz> writes:
>
>    Rob> Myself, I down load qif's from my bank at least every week.
>    Rob> All my scheduled transactions are handled by the bank (power
>    Rob> and phone bill, mortgage payments etc) and as such are
>    Rob> represented in the qifs...

I tried this, however, the QIFs my bank creates are brain dead:

	D09/24/01
	N
	P<Payee Name Deleted>        Ref# 010061 Bill Payment
	T-50.00
	M<Payee Name Deleted>        Ref# 010061 Bill Payment
	C*
	^

In order to use these, I still have to go through and decipher 
everything manually.  The only advantage I have is that there in 
chronological order.  I did write a perl script to go through and 
massage some of this into something that made sense.  However, even 
after that, there's still a lot of detail left out of most 
transactions that I want.

>Well, we're in the habit of writing checks and entering them into
>Quicken/GnuCash at that time.  So if we downloaded QIFs we would have
>them twice and we'd still have to fix up the QIF entries.  The
>scheduled transactions let us do everything in full detail without
>messing with downloaded QIFs.

At this point, it's a lot easier and less frustrating for me to do 
this as well.  Are scheduled txns working yet?  I'm still at 1.6.1 I 
think.  Is it time to upgrade again?
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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