QIF Import and accounts

[Derek Atkins]

"Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:

> 2007/12/17, Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>:
>>
>> Where do I see in GNC what the locale is?
>> Or is it just set by MS Windows in my case? It's GBP for the moment.
>>
>
> Hmm. Maybe it's trying to create the new accounts for another reason besides
> currency.

There are at least two reasons the importer will do this.  One:  different
currencies.  Two: incompatible account types.  For example, if the
importer thinks that an account should be an income account, it wont
let you assign it to an asset account.

> Why is it better to set up different account trees for different currencies?

Different account "TREES"?  I would say it's not.  But you certainly
need different ACCOUNTS for different currencies.

The importer acts as it does for historical reasons; the creator has
long since left the gnucash project (half a decade ago).  This is
one of the reasons the qif importer needs to be re-written.

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-derek

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