Derek - Thx for this detailed suggestion. The light bulb is going on now and cleaning up the "view" helps a lot!
I have another question. When I have opened 3 sub-account windows - they are all "pinned" in the same window pane as the main Accounts window pane - a tabbed approach. But from that point, any other sub accounts that I double click to open - will open in an individual/separate/apart window instead of adding to the tabbed view with the others. Hope this makes sense! Would there be a limit on tabbed accounts you can open? On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Jack Slater <theillini...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I think I'm getting that understanding a little bit. Thanks! > > > > Debit Checking Account - Credit Rent - paying a bill and knowing why > (even > > though in my Quicken mind the Rent account is just a category) > > > > I found a Transfer transaction on the tool bar that accommodates the type > > of transfer I am used to, i.e.: > > > > Debit Checking Account - Credit Visa Account - paying a bill > > > > In a perfect world, I'd sure like to use GC the same way. Maybe with all > > the help and usage I'll get there. > > You can easily restructure your account hierarchy by editing your > accounts and reassigning them to new parent accounts. For example, if > you look at the default account structure that you could create via File > -> New File and creating a set of empty accounts, it will look something > like: > > Assets/ > Current Assets/ > Bank/ > Checking > Savings > Cash > Fixed Assets/ > Car > House > Liabilities/ > Credit Card > Mortgage > Equity/ > Opening Balances > Income/ > Salary > Expenses/ > Groceries > Rent > Utilities/ > Electricity > Gas > Internet > Phone > > Most likely all your Income/Expense accounts got flattened because > Quicken generally doesn't create a hierarchy like this. But GnuCash > can. > > All you need to do is select an account in the CoA, click on Edit, and > then you can reassign to a new parent. Note that the parent must > already exist. So if you create a top-level Expenses account, then you > can assign Groceries and Rent to that. Similarly, if you create > Expenses:Utilities then you can put the other accounts under that. > > This will help clean up your accounts. > > There is another option: You can start over. Run the File -> New File, > create an empty set of accounts, and then, during the QIF Import from > Quicken, assign each of the QIF Accounts and Categories to the correct > GnuCash Account. This will properly populate the hierarchy as you > desire. > > Hope this helps! > > -derek > > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Mike or Penny Novack < > > stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > > > >> On 12/14/2017 2:10 PM, Jack Slater wrote: > >> > >>> I think I get what your saying and at this point (a) I have no clue > how to > >>> manage/edit/adjust what I have to that type of structure nor (b) do I > know > >>> enough yet to feel confident in making any changes! LOL.. > >>> > >>> I'm reconciling my November statement as we "speak" and had to add a > few > >>> account transfer entries - that in Quicken would credit 1 account and > >>> automatically debit the transfer account. I have non idea how/if I can > do > >>> that in GC!? > >>> > >>> Any pointers/help is gladly and thankfully accepted! > >>> > >>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >> > >> When you are entering transactions (of any sort) in gnucash or any other > >> double entry package you are always debiting one account (or accounts) > and > >> crediting one account (or accounts). Whether the second account is being > >> debited or credited will depend on what you are doing in the first > account > >> (the one you are entering the transactions from). THAT is automatic > using > >> gnucash. > >> > >> << the plurals above refer to split transactions which you will learn > >> about later >> > >> > >> Michael > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > _______________________________________________ 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.
