Linking two transactions (a transfer) after an import.

[Neill Hogarth]

Thank you to all three of you who have replied.

Now I know that the manual deletion of the duplicate entries is the "right
way" to do this I have less of a problem with it. I just wanted to be sure
that there was not a better solution hidden somewhere.

I used to keep track of my accounts with an excel sheet that I had written
myself and did exactly what Renato suggested with a "transfers" account. It
worked but didn't seem elegant. I could not immediately tell where a sum was
coming from or going to. Using the idea of deleting the second transaction
and creating the link "manually" leads to every transfer showing exactly
where it is going or coming to.

Now I just need to resolve my last mt940 to ofx conversion problems and I
have a great financial software that seems to do everything that I want.

Thanks for all your help.
Neill

On 27/12/2007, Renato Moutinho <renato.moutinho at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>     I'm not sure if this makes sense in "accounting terms", but I setup an
> account named "transfers" and every transfer between bank accounts goes
> throught this account on gnucash. This seems less fussy to deal with..
>
> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho
>
> On 12/27/07, Beth Leonard <beth at oasis.slimy.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 10:35:27PM +0100, Neill Hogarth wrote:
> > > My problem is that a number of transactions are transfers from one
> > account
> > > to the other or back again. How can I link these two transactions so
> > as to
> > > tell Gnucash that they are actually two sides of the same transaction.
> >
> > For the first transaction, select the account of the second one as the
> > transfer account manually.  For the second occurrence of the same
> > transaction, uncheck both boxes so the transaction appears in red "DO
> > NOT IMPORT" so you don't get duplicates in your accounts.
> >
> > Over time, the importer will match on previous names, so it will be
> > less work in the future if you have repeated transaction types.
> >
> > If you want to check that everything was imported properly, you can
> > always re-import the same .ofx file.  The second time you do it, it will
> > only show you the transactions which were left in red the first time.
> > This second time, they should likely all show "(auto) reconciled" to
> > show that they matched the transaction already in the account that you
> > successfully imported last time.
> >
> > --Beth
> > Beth Leonard
> > http://www.LeonardFamilyVideos.com
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