importing QIF

[GT-I9070 H]

Hi Paul,

Perhaps the XLS2QIF tool can help you!

See: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Published_tools

Do not worry about QIF tags.
Engineering greetings!

Best Ragards
GTI

2016-05-27 20:11 GMT-04:00 Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com>:

> 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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