Smart way of using imported data?

Yawar Amin yawar.amin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 23:24:49 EDT 2009


Hi Greg,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Greg Bell <gbell_spamless at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Helpers,
>
> I like to keep track of my checking account activity on my own - eg. when I
> write a check I put that transaction into the correct account in GnuCash.  I
> then like to make sure my records match the bank's.
>
> So how should I use the QIF from my bank?
>
> Solutions:
>
> 1) Let GnuCash put that imported information into another account, then
> reconcile my manually entered transactions?
>   Problem:  Then I'd have double the assets - those in my manually entered
> checking account + those in my imported checking account.
>
> 2) Let GnuCash put that imported information into my manually entered
> checking account, letting it detect matches.
>  Problem: Its really the non-matches that I'm interested in.
>

Sorry--if you're taking the time to manually enter everything, why import
QIFs? Just reconcile once a month, the old fashioned way. Or go online every
week or so and make sure everything matches up.


>
>
> Thanks for any time spared.
> Greg
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Cheers,

Yawar


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