Importing QIF

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Öhreneder Christian <Christian.Oehreneder at kapsch.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to import my bank account statement into GnuCash. I get them in
> csv format and convert them to QIF using calc2qif. In calc I have
> defined rules to assign categories (accounts) to the entry lines in my
> statement, e.g. all lines containing a policy number of an insurance
> are assigned to my respective GnuCash account. (I find that this
> reduces the manual work a lot.) This works well as long as the account
> is an expense type account. If I do the same with my transfers to my
> savings account GnuCash says there is a name conflict and creates a
> new account.
>
> Does anyone know how I can solve this?
> Any suggestions how to efficiently import account statements? How can I automatically assign target accounts to the entry lines in my bank account statement?

What does the QIF look like for the Asset transfers?  (vs. the QIF
for an Expense transaction)?  I suspect your QIF is malformed...

> Thanks for your help!
> Christian

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-derek

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