Transfer of money from different gnu cash files

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Lukas Haase wrote
> I have the same issue with my wife: I have my personal file (and want to
> keep it personal) but many things are shared. Fortunately so far, she does
> not use GNU cash, so I just take over everything. But I would really like
> her to have her own gnu cash file and we transfer the money (when she buys
> shared stuff or when I do).

As far as I am aware this problem is not addressed anywhere in gnucash. I
would imagine that providing functionality to transfer money between files
without having to manually add to both files would be far from trivial.

Having accounts and their totals totally hidden within a single file and
only accessible to specific users would be useful and probably address this
as well but is probably wishful thinking.


Lukas Haase wrote
> this would solve my issues above. But now I already started with my system
> and had it for one year. Merging the two files will be much work I think.

Yes. Since there is no functionality to merge sets of accounts everything
would have to be done manually and the gain is probably not worth the
effort.


Lukas Haase wrote
> For the case, I still stick with my two files: What is the best approach
> for the transfer accounts? Again, is "Equity" for the Transfer-In and
> "Expenses" for the Transfer-Out the right approach?

If these are personal accounts rather than business accounts then whatever
works for you should be okay but there is a potential drawback here. If you
want to look at total expenses across both files you will get a figure
higher than real expenses unless you manually remove the transfer amounts.
The only real expense involved will be the (bank) charges getting the money
from one country to another.

Personally I would keep everything in Equity just making the adjustment a
credit or debit to reflect the direction of movement. That way all
transactions will be between Equity and Assets and not impact Income and
Expenses. 



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