QIF import and accounts

David Reiser dbreiser at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 8 09:27:18 EDT 2005


On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:46 AM, Simon Arthur wrote:

> David Reiser wrote:
>
>> On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Simon Arthur wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to automatically associate these descriptions with 
>>> Gnucash accounts ("Home Improvement", "Utilities")? Or am I stuck 
>>> going to each transaction and manually entering the account that it 
>>> belongs to?
>>
>> The first time you have to do it manually. Once a description has 
>> been assigned an account, that account will show up as the default 
>> for subsequent imports having the same description.
>
> Thanks, David!
>
> Am I the only one who thinks that Gnucash is way too hard to get 
> started with?
>

Probably not, but some of that is that the docs are a bit sparse in 
some areas. A lot of times it does what you want, it's just not obvious 
the first time through. Then, there are those times when accounting 
practice is just plain aggravating...

Dave



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