importing QIF

[Maf. King]

Hi Paul,

If the importer creates the account House, and you want it to be 
Expenses:House in GC, then from the "Chart of Accounts" view, you can easily 
move accounts around in the tree.  Just right click on the account you wish to 
move, and then hit "Edit Account" from the pop-up menu.  Towards the bottom of 
that dialogue box, you can set the Type to Expense and set Parent to whatever 
you want.

HTH,
Maf.



On Friday, 27 May 2016 18:11:59 BST Paul Kinzelman wrote:
> I'm trying to import a large QIF file from my Quicken, and one
> inconvenient thing
> is that GnuCash does not recognize many accounts as being expense accounts
> because it does not group them under the parent account 'Expenses'.
> 
> For instance, my Quicken categories 'House:Garden' and 'House:Household' are
> both recognized as subaccounts under 'House' in Gnucash, but neither are
> put under the parent 'Expenses' as is suggested in the setup. I've looked
> at the
> QIF file, but it's not obvious to me how to put a Category under a parent by
> direct editing the QIF file.
> 
> Can anybody suggest a way to put the 'House' Category
> in Quicken under a (new) parent account 'Expenses' in GnuCash? I figured
> that
> editing the QIF file might be easier than all the mouse clicks necessary to
> do this to all my Quicken expense categories when imported into GnuCash.
> TIA!
> 
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