Importing from Quicken

[Steve]

---- Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > And by all means, if you find anything else in
> > > your QIF that doesn't import correctly, let us know.
> >
> > You say shorts and covers aren't supported by the QIF importer but you
> > imply that they supported by GC at all? How do I go about entering a short
> > transaction?
> >
> 
> That is a good question. I have not tried to enter shorts or covers in
> GnuCash. Off the top of my head, it seems like you would need a "Borrowed
> Shares:Security Name" liability account for which the underlying "commodity"
> (GnuCash term) is the security being sold short. Transfer shares from that
> account into your portfolio and immediately sell them. That would be the
> short, leaving you with the cash you got from the sale plus a liability of
> the borrowed shares.  For the cover, buy shares for the liability account.
> 
> 
> > I'm well beyong the import stage now and I'm not going to go back and do
> > it again but if you want me to pull out a short transaction from the QIF
> > file to help with future GC revisions, I can do that.
> >
> 
> Yes, if you can pull out a short transaction and a cover, I'll see how hard
> it would be to import them. At the very least I can use them to file a
> request for enhancement.
> 
> -Charles

OK, Better late than never, eh?
Here a part of a QIF file that contains a short and a cover. GC 2.2.3 ignored these and put up a waring that it was ignoring some transactions but it didn't say which ones.

!Type:Invst

D4/ 3' 6

NMargInt

CR

U33.24

T33.24

MMARGIN INTEREST CHARGE

^

D4/ 3' 6

NCash

CR

U0.37

T0.37

MINTEREST CREDIT

^

D4/ 4' 6

NShtSell

YAMERADA HESS CORP COM

I141.10

Q100

CR

U14,098.57

T14,098.57

MSELL SHORT 100.000 SHARES AHC @ 141.10

O11.43

^

D4/ 5' 6

NCvrShrt

YAMERADA HESS CORP COM

I148.09

Q100

CR

U14,819.99

T14,819.99

MBUY TO COVER 100.000 SHARES AHC @ 148.09

O10.99

^

Steve