[GNC] New user: how to migrate Quicken checking account as a single, flat, checking account

[Keld Sorensen]

An easy way to "move" many entries is to *delete* the offending account and
let GnuCash move it to another account.

Say you have utilities:water as an account but also utilities:Watercompany.
Then you simply delete one and ask GnuCash to move all transactions to the
other. All in one fell swoop.

Moving from Quicken (single entry) to GnuCash (Double entry) is at times a
good deal of work before you have it the way you like it.

It may even be of value to you to redo the import as you better
understand GnuCash.



On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 9:55 AM Scott Traurig <scott.traurig at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I do understand double-entry accounting and that it is the GnuCash
> paradigm.
>
> What I didn't understand is that on the import GnuCash did create the
> requisite checking account, plus all the expense accounts. I did not see
> the checking account as it was lost in a sea of expense accounts.
>
> Now that I've gotten that far, is there any way to move accounts en masse
> into a top level "Expenses" account? Or do I have to laboriously edit each
> and every one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
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