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....@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 <f...@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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
