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

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Jun 27 09:20:47 EDT 2017


On dinsdag 27 juni 2017 10:58:33 CEST Maf. King wrote:
> 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.

You're welcome :)

Geert



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