[GNC] Coming from Quicken

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 11/21/2025 8:31 AM, Larry Weeks wrote:
> Is there a tutorial or document that walks through how Gnucash is different
> from Quicken, accounts versus categories, how to move transactions from
> account to account if they were categorized wrong, etc?
>
Gnucash implements standard double entry bookkeeping.

HOW to "move" (correct) transactions changing the account depends on 
whether following formal accounting rules* or not. If not, just (re)open 
the transaction in one of the other accounts (always two or more 
accounts so always "another") and correct the one that is wrong.

Michael D Novack

* Remember the origin, ink on paper in bound volumes. So you never 
CHANGED an existing transaction. Instead you entered an 
offsetting/correcting transaction (with appropriate description). So if 
being formal, that's what you do in gnucash.

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