GnuCash import from Quicken 2007 on OSX

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

dbowen <DanEms at enkito.com> writes:

> The last responder asked for examples of my class name usage in
> Quicken 2007 for OS X.
>
> Usage started organically when I discovered some changes were
> necessary in my initial Quicken2007 structure.
> The IRS demanded that I record some expenses separately for my wife and I.
> I also bought another vehicle which demanded that category structure change.
> Rather than adding IDs in the category path, I added classes to the
> end of the entries needing changes.
> This was done partly to make the additional detail easy to enter.
> Also, any changes to existing data only required adding a /<Class> tag
> to a transaction.
> [ I did not want to add text in the middle of a category string. That
> seemed fraught. ]
>
> So,
> Auto:Fuel became Auto:Fuel/ACamry -or- Auto:Fuel/ASienna as required.
> [ The A's grouped the like classes together for Autos ]
> --and--
> Med:Doctor could become Med:Doctor/DJB or Med:Doctor/SLB as needed
>
> I could still report on all things with any of a list of Classes or
> Categories to get totals for a given combination of category & class.

Can you just drop the classes?  Or could you turn them into subaccounts?
I.e., change LMed:Doctor/DJB to LMed:Doctor:DJB ?

> I will enclose a *.pdf of my class list from Quicken.
>
> Please pay no attention to the [Tax Copies] entry in the enclosure,
> that was never used.
> Quicken tax reporting never allowed me to specify a line item
> destination precisely, so I never used it.

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-derek

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