gnucash

[Liz]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:22:35 +1100
"Chris Good" <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:58:49 -0800
> > From: Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> > To: Deborah McNeil <imtoothru at gmail.com>,
> > "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: gnucash
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> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Deborah McNeil
> > <imtoothru at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > hi is it possible to merge 2 books into 1 without entering all the
> > > info manually. thanks Deborah McNeil
> > >  
> 
> Hi Deborah,
> 
> It should be a lot easier when Geert's mods to CSV importing go live
> in GnuCash 2.8.
> Then you should be able to export from 1 system then import into the
> other. I suggest waiting for that (2018) if you can.
> See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule.
> Probably there will still be a fair bit of adjustment required
> afterwards.
> 
> I seem to remember the CSV export/imports don't handle business
> functions (eg invoices). If you're not talking about the books of a
> business that won't matter.
> 
> Regards, Chris Good

Alternately, one of our regular correspondent's favourite answers....

Close off both books - at the end of a financial reporting period would
be ideal - and go ahead with a single book from that time. You might
have a month or two to enter into the new system from the old books.

Liz