New User to GnuCash

[Jack Slater]

Thanks for the feedback!

I'll get to that and read thru. Then if I am a typical Quicken fool I'll be
back for more direction!

I'm wondering then if there is a way to designate the "real" accounts in
the massive Account Listing so i can see/sort or make those stand out from
the "non-real" accounts.

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:03 PM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jack,
>
> Welcome to Gnucash, and welcome to this list.
>
> Before you tinker with the account structure in Gnucash, I strongly
> recommend that you read the Basics section in the Tutorial & Concepts Guide
> (available on the Gnucash website). The 4 chapters there will give you a
> better understanding of some of the fundamental ways that Gnucash differs
> from Quicken.
>
>
> Specifically, you will want to look at how Gnucash's double entry aspects
> affect file structure. Gnucash doesn't have categories; rather, it uses
> accounts for this purpose. Many refugees from Quicken find this a difficult
> adjustment to make.
>
> After you have read these chapters, you will understand that you probably
> will want to keep all those accounts--after all, you had the categories for
> a reason! You'll also understand how Gnucash reflects a more formal
> accounting system than Quicken.
>
> A quick way to determine whether to keep all those accounts: open each of
> them up, and if there are transactions listed in the register, then you
> won't want to delete that account.
>
> Rest assured, however, that if you did try to delete one of these
> accounts, Gnucash would prompt you to designate where these transactions
> should be moved.
>
> Hope this helps,
> David
>
>
> On December 14, 2017, at 10:07 PM, Jack Slater <theilliniguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I dropped Quicken finally and have been trying GC for a few days. So far it
> seems like a great replacement but I'm a total noob.
>
> My first question:
> I did an import from Quicken and I guess I misunderstood the terminology
> differences.  When I look at the GC Accounts window - it is a complete
> listing of both (what were names in Quicken) Accounts and Categories, now
> just all listed as Accounts.
>
> I'd like to get rid of the Categories listings yet retain the "true"
> Accounts but want to make sure that if I just delete them, I'm not harming
> data "under the hood" so to speak.
>
> I hope I'm approaching the mailing list help process correctly and also
> hope to get good enough that I could eventually help others.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jack in Illinois
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