Importing From Moneydance

[Keith Bates]

I'm trying to switch from moneydance to gnucash. I've worked through all 
the issues with importing the qif files.

The transition seems to work out fine for simple personal accounting 
type accounts, but I am running into big problems with a church account 
that has several liability accounts, accounts payable and a credit card 
account.

The most obvious of these problems is that there seems to be a 
difference with the way md and gnucash work with liability accounts- or 
at least the way they get handled when going via qif file.

Example.

Each fortnight I make an entry from my bank account that increases the 
"Pastors Benefit Fund" liability by $200, then balance that with a  
charge to an expense category called "Pastors Benefit"

When I withdraw from that Benefit Fund, via my bank account or credit 
card, it appears as a decrease from the Benefit Fund.

That all works out fine in moneydance. But the data import has put both 
the deposits and withdrawals from that fund onto the same side, so that 
the liability gets ever greater instead of rising and falling.

Is there any way to correct this in the imported data?

The alternative would be to stay with moneydance for another month and 
start with brand new data on July 1 when the Australian financial year 
starts. The trouble is that I would effectively be archiving the 
previous 12 years of records.

-- 
God bless you
Keith Bates
4 Mooloobar St
Narrabri NSW
Ph 02 67924890

Jesus is the Way
the Truth and the Life