Migrate to QuickBooks

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

The QIF Importer does not import an empty chart of accounts.  It
will understand QIF accounts, but if you have no transactions in the
file it wont create GnuCash accounts to match (empty) QIF Accounts.

So....  Don't worry about you CoA.  Get your transactions into
Gnucash first, and then you can fix the hierarchy if you need to.

-derek

Quoting The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>:

> This little episode is driving me bonkers . . .
>
> Ultimately I am trying to re-create my existing quicken chart of
> accounts in GnuCash 2.2.4.  (I want to avoid manual input of Accounts
> and Categories which have taken 8 years to build in Quicken.)
>
> * These days Quicken will not provide a facility to export their/(my!)
> data.  Smart buggers that they are.
> * But I can generate a report and save it as an Excel file.
> * From there I was expecting to create a GnuCash acceptable QIF file
> * So I want to see what QIF formatted data will be needed to
> create/import my Chart of Accounts into GC
> * Well I found that GC will export its Chart of Accounts.  I accepted
> the GC suggested Chart of Accounts when I first fired it up.
> * And I was pointed to the utility gnucastoqif (not gnucas2qif by the way)
> * Having run the whole above procedure this is what I got:
>
> !Type:Cat
> !Option:AutoSwitch
> !Account
> !Clear:AutoSwitch
> !Option:AutoSwitch
>
> What does it mean?
> Has someone got a better idea for me to accomplish my intended
> conversion to GnuCash.
>
> Once I have my chart of accounts set up I am confident of being able to
> transfer the accounts history using qif files I can create from each
> account in the by then established chart of accounts.
>
> Replacing Quicken is going to be critical to my total conversion to Ubuntu.
>
> Helppp please . . . .
>
> Dave W
>
> The Wassermans wrote:
>> If I wanted to create a GnuCash chart of accounts in a .qif file would I
>> use gnucas2qif.  Where do I find or download it?
>>
>> Dave W
>>
>> ianmlewis at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> If you are really converting *TO* quickbooks your best bet is to
>>> convert your gnucash file to QIF using gnucash2qif and importing into
>>> quickbooks that way.
>>> Ian
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