Imbalance account

[Derek Atkins]

Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> writes:

>>  
>>
>>>Hi Derek
>>>thanks for the reply.  I imported as a qif file, then allocated the
>>>transactions after they were imported.  Funny thing is that I've done
>>>it before without this happening, and of course you don't notice it
>>>unless you look at the Chart of Accoutns
>>>A
>>>    
>>>
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>>I don't see any reason that the QIF importer should put something into
>>the Imbalance account.  However it is usually better to map the
>>transactions during the import rather than after the import.
>>
>>-derek
>>  
>>
> Most likely an incorrect mapping with the account not where being expected?

Sure, a memorized incorrect mapping could cause it.  But by default the
qif importer creates an account of the same name as the QIF Category,
and IIRC the Payee mapper defaults into "Unspecified", not "Imbalance".

> Michael

-derek

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