[GNC] Unusual book need

davidcousens49 at gmail.com davidcousens49 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 17:10:01 EDT 2022


Jeff 

Another approach you could try would be to create  a temporary account in your
dad's books and move the transactions that should have gone into your account
into it.  Should work if all of the transactions have at least one account in
common , e.g. an Asset; bank account or similar.  if not you may need to create
more than one temp account.

You could then export the transactions in that temp accountas an OFX or CSV file
which you could then import into your own books. If the target accounts are the
same in yours and your dad's books they should import  but if not edit those
that aren't. CSV may be more appropriate if you need to edit the transactions
before importing If you then delete the temporary account in your dad's books
and choose to discard the transactions in it you should be good.

David Cousens




On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 04:00 -0500, Jeff wrote:
> I need to move transactions from from one set of books to another one.
> 
> I didn't realize while entering transactions in my dads books that they 
> should have gone into mine.  My dad opened a bank account that I did not 
> know about until I started entering charges that my son made with feed 
> stores (debit card).  I had not been informed about the bank account 
> that grandpa opened in my sons name, and I am responsible for all of his 
> income/debits until he is 21.  And many of these transactions affect my 
> income/loss.
> 
> Is there an easy way to move those entries from one journal to the other 
> or will I have to find all of them and manually delete them from one 
> journal and reenter them in mine?  These are separate journal files.
> 



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