Maf,
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried option 2, but was not successful. I created a new Account, Type Income. Then started the process to delete the Expense account and move the transactions to the new Income account. Unfortunately, GnuCash will only allow the transactions to be moved to another Expense account. For now, I will wait for .17 and see how that works. Paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Maf. King" <m...@chilwell.net> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org, stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com Subject: Re: MS Money income category converted to expense account when imported t o Gnucash Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:30:59 +0100 On Monday, 26 June 2017 20:03:09 BST Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > On 6/26/2017 12:14 PM, pfwoolver...@juno.com wrote: > > I have a checking account showing deposits from income categories in MS > > Money. I exported the account as .qif and imported it to GnuCash. One > > of the the income categories in MS Mpney was converted to an expense > > account instead of an income account in GnuCash. > > > > How do I convert this account to an income account? > > I am going to rewrite your question slightly (you will see why) > > question: I am new to gnucash and I have an account that has the wrong > name or is in the wrong place in the CoA or is of the wrong type or > .......... > > answer: Select the account and use edit (edit account). Look at all the > things you can change about the account. > > Michael D Novack Hi pfwoolverton, welcome to GnuCash & the list. Just to expand on Mike's accurate answer a bit. There has been a change in the latest version (2.6.16) of GnuCash that was recently brought to my attention that will mean that Mike's advice may not work for you. In all prior versions, it was possible to change the account's "Type" as Mike describes, and that *is* what you need to do. However, it is not possible in 2.6.16; you can only set the account type at creation. You have 2 ways forward. 1. downgrade to 2.6.15 and then do as Mike suggests (or wait for .17 and see if it is possbile to edit the account type - I don't know what the Devs have planned in that regard) 2. Create a new Account, with the correct type, then move the transactions from the old to the new. I'm not sure if this will work or not with the change of "Type". A quick way to move all the transactions from one account to another is to delete the original account from the tree - GC will then ask if you want to delete all the transactions in that account or move them to a different account. Guess which you should choose! Whichever of these methods you try, make a good backup of your data file first, just in case! HTH, Maf. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
