Mateja, I’m very new to GnuCash as well and have almost entered all my transaction for year to date. It looks as though you are working with you checking account. I had major problems with CSV and found QFX much much easier. Major mistake doing more then one month at a time! If you mess up you could lose hours of work. I also created a second GnuCash file to see how things worked before attempting entries in my real file. It has saved me a couple times from having to go back to square one. PS, I learned the hard way. Read the help files!
I’ve been advised to read the help files and have spent quite some time doing so. I recommend it. To answer your immediate question for the CSV download, you will have to choose a date (either made or finished), a description, and an amount. The two columns threw me and QFX provided only one with +or- as appropriate. The base account will be either an expense account or a deposit to checking from some other source that you set up. That could be another asset account like the other bank you use or an income account that you create. One example is non-taxable reimbursements for when you are the purse for your friends and they pay you back. Of course, you already had the expense entered when you wrote the check for whatever. The users here are great and the help files provide both written and visual demonstrations of most actions. Good luck. > On Jul 24, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Mateja Maric via gnucash-user > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I found out about GnuCash (and double-entry accounting) three days ago and I > want to use it to track my spending... > My bank allows me to export my transaction history to a CSV file. > I plan to use that feature regularly and import transactions into GnuCash. > Here's how my bank's CSV file looks like: > ``` > Date made; Date finished; Withdrawn; Deposited; Balance; Description > 2.2.2022.; 4.2.2022.; 200; 0; 12800; Pizza > paid by a debit card > 15.1.2022.; 16.1.2022.; 2000; 0; 13000; ATM Cash > Withdrawn > 2.1.2022.; 2.1.2022.; 0; 15000; 15000; Salary received > ``` > Of course this is just an example and I actually have hundreds of > transactions that I have to import from a single file. > I'm using a "A Simple Checkbook" account hierarchy and I'm having trouble > putting transactions into appropriate accounts. What should be my base > account when importing transactions? Also can I move transactions from one > account to another and can I switch debit and credit fields of multiple > transactions (because I already managed to mess up their order)? > > Thanks in advance, > Mateja > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
