Double entry accounting with "double entry statement import"

[Derek Atkins]

Paweł Zając <pavzaj at gmail.com> writes:

> "In my experience, if you import each account's OFX file separately, the
> second OFX will match to the existing transaction. This is because the "two"
> transactions in the separate OFX files are really two sides of a single
> transaction in Gnucash."
>
> I'd love to have these files imported this way. I know that "the "two"
> transactions in the separate OFX files are really two sides of a single
> transaction in Gnucash", but how to make GnuCash to know that? These "two"
> transactions have the same date and the same amount, but one is credit, and
> one is debit, and they have different names/memos. In my case Gnucash
> doesn't recognize it as two sides of the same transaction... Or maybe the
> ofx files I have are somehow incomplete.

When importing file #1 (for account A) you make the transaction point to
account B during the import.  Then when you import file #2 (for account
B) it will notice that there's a similar transaction and mark it as a
potential duplicate.  You confirm is as a dup.

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-derek

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