MS Money income category converted to expense account when imported t o Gnucash

[Maf. King]

On Monday, 26 June 2017 20:03:09 BST Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 6/26/2017 12:14 PM, pfwoolverton at juno.com wrote:
> > I have a checking account showing deposits from income categories in MS
> > Money.  I exported the account as .qif and imported it to GnuCash.  One
> > of the the income categories in MS Mpney was converted to an expense
> > account instead of an income account in GnuCash.
> > 
> > How do I convert this account to an income account?
> 
> I am going to rewrite your question slightly (you will see why)
> 
> question: I am new to gnucash and I have an account that has the wrong
> name or is in the wrong place in the CoA or is of the wrong type or
> ..........
> 
> answer: Select the account and use edit (edit account). Look at all the
> things you can change about the account.
> 
> Michael D Novack

Hi pfwoolverton,

welcome to GnuCash & the list.

Just to expand on Mike's accurate answer a bit.  There has been a change in 
the latest version (2.6.16) of GnuCash that was recently brought to my 
attention that will mean that Mike's advice may not work for you.

In all prior versions, it was possible to change the account's "Type" as Mike 
describes, and that *is* what you need to do.  However, it is not possible in 
2.6.16; you can only set the account type at creation.

You have 2 ways forward.

1. downgrade to 2.6.15 and then do as Mike suggests (or wait for .17 and see 
if it is possbile to edit the account type - I don't know what the Devs have 
planned in that regard)

2. Create a new Account, with the correct type, then move the transactions 
from the old to the new.  I'm not sure if this will work or not with the 
change of "Type".  A quick way to move all the transactions from one account 
to another is to delete the original account from the tree - GC will then ask 
if you want to delete all the transactions in that account or move them to a 
different account.  Guess which you should choose!

Whichever of these methods you try, make a good backup of your data file first, 
just in case!

HTH,
Maf.