adding accounts to full checkbook

[Derek Atkins]

Well, once you have an account set up you have to add
accounts by hand.  The hierarchy druid only works for
new files.

Double entry is accomplished by creating a bunch of income/expense
accounts (which correspond to Quicken Categories) and all your
transactions are transfers between an income/expense account and your
checking account.  Gnucash would have complained loudly if you didn't
do this.  The double-entry isn't visible unless you recognize that the
"transfer" column equates to the doubleness.

If your only Asset account is your checking, you can just keep it
as-is, or you can build an Asset hierarchy and move the existing
account into the hierarchy.

-derek

"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford at goingware.com> writes:

> When I first started using Gnucash, I had a lot of transactions I
> wanted to add, and was in a hurry, so I didn't create any accounts
> except the default ones, and have now got four months of transactions,
> all assigned to the account "Assets".
>
> It's not visibly doing double entry, but I would like it to do so now,
> and to have each transaction assigned to the proper account.
>
> I'm still pretty new at Gnucash, and it seems to me if I just try to
> do this by muddling through it, I will mess things up.  Does anyone
> have any tips for me about this?  Any articles on the web?  I'm not
> able to get clued in by reading the Gnucash help.
>
> The checking account I'm tracking had never been tracked in another
> program such as Quicken.
>
> Mike
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