Hi Simon, the import had the proper transactions but was not matching a
couple I had manually entered that were outside the default parameters.
I thing I’ve got that sorted now.
I’m running ver 4.13 of GC in Windows 11. I upgrade as soon as I know
one has been distributed.
On Dec 31, 2022, at 11:54 AM, Simon Roberts
<si...@dancingcloudservices.com> wrote:
A side thought Phylls, I think your first observation was about some
transactions that you had imported not showing up?
If that's the case, what version of GnuCash are you running? I was
running 3.8, which was the default from the Ubuntu Linux repositories.
It was indeed failing to import some transactions (because it deemed
them duplicates, even though they most definitely were not). However,
after building version 4.13, I no longer see that problem.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 6:53 AM Phyllis Bruce <[1]pobruc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks Jean and David,
My thresholds are prolly set to the defaults. Another thing I will do
is filter for "Unreconciled" before I start my reconciliation. I often
have some withdrawals that don't occur within two months. If I know
they're there, I can change the threshold to look for them.
Second thought, clearly a preference because we are looking at
"statements" from the bank. How might I keep the date issued as part
of my record? Where should I enter that since, in the reconciliation
the date is always changed to date cleared? Just finished reconciling
for the month so it will be a while before I can test this. New year -
new start
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:25 PM Simon Roberts
<[2]si...@dancingcloudservices.com> wrote:
Thank you for the help to this point. I think I've worked out the
date
issue (very embarrassing, nothing to do with GC). Now I have a bunch
more
questions, but I'll ask them in dedicated threads to minimize
confusion.
I did notice that the CSV version of the transaction information
contains
two different date columns one called "Posting" and the other
"Effective",
but in all my samples so far, they're the same. That had nothing to
do with
my stupi^H^H^H^H^H ... er, "problem", but I mention it in case it
has any
relevance to anyone looking at this thread years from now. The OFX
file
only seems to contain a single date field ("DTPOSTED").
But yeah, overwhelm induced stupidity on my part, sorry. Next
question will
be a bit more real, but many thanks to everyone who was kind enough
to
pitch in their ideas.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:19 PM David Cousens
<[3]davidcousen...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Simon,
>
> The OFX file will be the immediate position in the banks records
at the
> time of
> download. What appears in a statement may be after completion of
interbank
> clearances of funds and the dates in the statement may reflect
when this
> occurred rather than when the transaction was first received by
the bank.
> Clearnce times are generally a lot shorter with electronic
clearances than
> they
> used to be can sometimes be delayed. SInce this is a disagreement
between
> OFX
> records and statement both produced by the bank, they are best
placed to
> explain
> what such discrepancies are and why they occur.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Fri, 2022-12-30 at 14:35 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
> > Beginner/refugee from QuickBooks here (more context below if you
> > care). I'm working in a scratch file, so I can do stupid things
while
> > learning without damaging anything "important".
> >
> > I'm working with importing my bank transactions using OFX format
(though
> > I've also tinkered with CSV, and am willing to use that if it
> > solves my problem).
> >
> > I imported some transactions using OFX. Several things surprised
me, but
> > the one that I think needs resolving first is that the
transaction dates
> do
> > not match the bank statement.
> >
> > Earlier I tried the CSV import and saw there were *two* date
fields
> > (presumably difference between being received and being acted
on?
> >
> > Can someone tell me what I should do to fix this? Is there a way
to
> "tweek"
> > the OFX import, or do I need to use CSV? Or is this something
else
> entirely
> > that's gone amiss?
> >
> > Thanks for any hints,
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> >
> > Background in case it's relevant:
> >
> > I'm a refugee from Intuit, and very early in my learning
process.
> >
> > I"m not a bookkeeper, I'm a programmer. Conversely, my
bookkeeper isn't a
> > software person--she would have continued paying the annual
ransom to
> > Intuit but I'm sick of their hostage taking. Of course this
means I need
> to
> > do a decent part of the legwork for this transition.
> >
> > Of course because I'm not a bookkeeper, I don't understand the
accounting
> > side of this stuff, and likely won't know how to ask/phrase the
> questions.
> >
> > Neither of us are going to be great at searching the
documentation since
> it
> > seems like the terminology is different between GC and QB (and I
don't
> > really know the terminology anyway)
> >
> > So, please forgive the idiot question, and if the simple answer
to a
> > question is RTFM, we're very happy to do so, but likely are
asking as
> we've
> > failed to find the relevant part of said references.
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for your indulgence :)
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