Two real-live bank accounts in GnuCash

[Liz]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
lugge <luge86 at gmx.de> wrote:

> I now have to bank accounts in one GnuCash file.
> When I update my transactions via AqBanking, I have a 500€ credit in
> one account and a 500€ debit in another account.

When you import the transactions you have an opportunity to set these
things to be related.
I'm not sure whether aqbanking is providing a qif or an ofx file. They
have different importers, and different ways of sorting out problems.

Import the smallest amount you can at once, and save after each import,
because this makes the "training" of the importers easier.

I suspect it may be easier to start a second Gnucash account, regard
the first one as training for yourself, and start again with no
previous imports like this

> Because all transactions in GnuCash needs a "to/from"-account, all
> transactions are mirrored in an "Unbalanced" account.
> I have to go into my giro account and set the proper to/from account
> by
> hand.
> This way, I split my transactions into subcategories, like
> "expenses:loan", "expenses:living", "expenses:sports"...

Liz