Importing OFX/QFX file for placeholder account with multiple sub-accounts

[keith]

Iain,

Are you missing the double-entry bookkeeping model that gnucash uses? 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_book-keeping )
Your various categories of expenses are not subaccounts of your 
checking. They are "expense" accounts. When you record a check in 
gnucash you show the checking account that the funds came from and a 
separate account for the expense (phone bill, etc.) that is being paid.

The QIF and QFX/OFX importers learn (pretty well) after a while that a 
check to Rogers Cable goes against my account for cable expenses. So a 
transaction is generated during the import to "credit" checking and 
"debit" cable. There are some rough spots, but it works.

So after a while my checking account shows my current balance and my 
various expenses are each in an appropriate bucket (account). My 
savings/income work the same way, except that I debit checking and 
credit income.

Sorry if I am missing the point, but double-entry is key to using 
gnucash and to good accounting practices.

Keith

Iain Woolf wrote:
> I have my Assets:Chequing account set as a placeholder account, with
> multiple sub-accounts where I track my actual saving/spending/etc.
>
> At the bank end, I just have a single chequing account (they don't
> support virtual sub-accounts).
>
> When importing a OFX/QFX file for Assets:Chequing, it only prompts me
> for source of the transaction and proceeds to write the transaction
> into the (read only) chequing account.
>
> I then have to go through each transaction in the chequing account,
> jump to the other account which holds the other half of the
> transaction and 'fix' it there, pointing it to the correct
> Asset:Chequing:SubAccount.
>
> Is this something that is expanded in a future version, or am I
> missing something here (entirely possible)?
>
> (I'm using gnucash 2.0.5 on Debian)
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Iain
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