Double entry accounting with "double entry statement import"

[Paweł Zając]

Dear Derek,
Your way of importing OFX files seems to work pretty well. It recognizes
transactions from two files as one money transfer. I think it's enough for
me for now. Thank you!

Best regards
Pawel

2010/7/14 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>

> 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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