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

[Scott Traurig]

That was the politest "No, you are stuck doing it manually" response I've
ever seen ;-)

Thanks,

Scott

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:25 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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