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

Maf. King maf at chilwell.net
Tue Jun 27 04:58:33 EDT 2017


On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 09:49:14 BST Geert Janssens wrote:

> This is how it will be for 2.6.17 following a couple of changed I made last
> week:
> 
> 1. If the account has no splits yet, everything is possible (this has always
> been the case by the way, also in 2.6.16).
> 2. If there are already splits in the account, you will still be able to
> change it's account type barring 1 restriction and 3 exceptions:
> The restriction:
> - you can only change to an account type that has the same commodity family
> (so from a stock type account to a stock type account or from a currency
> account to a currency account, but not from a currency account to a stock
> type account or the other way around).
> And the 3 exceptions:
> - You can't change the type of A/R, A/P and trading accounts because gnucash
> depends on internal details of these account types and would get confused/
> loose data if they were changed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert

Hi Geert,

sounds like you've given it some thought!  thanks for clarifying the changes 
you've made for the next version, and the sane return of occasionally-useful 
functionality.

Maf.
 



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