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

[David Carlson]

Scott,

If I understand correctly, what you expected was a chart of accounts with
one asset account for checking and all other accounts lumped under
expenses.  Maybe one account for income.

You should be able to get to that result with an import from Quicken  but
it may take some or perhaps a lot of manipulation depending on the
condition of your source.  You don't really need to reduce all the expense
accounts into one because they are already collected under the single top
account called Expense.

Good luck

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:57 AM Fred Bone <Fred at mandfb.me.uk> wrote:

> On 04 December 2022 at 11:54, Scott Traurig said:
>
> > 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?
>
> What *might* work is to delete the unwanted accounts.
>
> When you delete an account, Gnucash will ask what you want to do with the
> transactions in it. You can move them to another (already existing)
> account. This will let you (for example) consolidate the grocery
> transactions, with 17 different vendors, into one "Expenses:Grocery"
> account.
>
> If you really want all the expenses in a single account then I suggest
> you don't want an accounting system and Gnucash is not the solution you
> are looking for.
>
>
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