FYI one of my credit cards produces OFX files that are reversed from the standard that the other cards all produce. I suppose the same might happen with the CSV format but if so you should be able to adjust the settings to match.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 1:56 PM Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > The statement from the credit card company is likely from THEIR point of > view. Just like the statement of your bank account you get from your > bank is from their point of view. > > What you owe them is a credit in your books but a debit in theirs. What > money they owe you is a debit in your books and a credit in theirs. > > Michael D Novack > > PS --- It was once always positive amounts in double entry bookkeeping > (older than negative numbers were accepted in Western mathematics). The > senses are not positive and negative but debit and credit. Those senses > do not correspond (whether a debit is positive or negative depends on > what kind of account -- same with credit. > > > > On 1/16/2025 2:22 PM, Tom Balazs wrote: > > I just imported a bunch of credit card transactions from a CSV file. I > > imported them into a liability credit card account, positive values, > column > > title "amount". > > But they all the purchases / charge transactions went into the "payment" > > column, not the "charge" column. All the other info imported fine. > > > > Apparently I have to make those transactions either a negative value, or > > the column title has to be "amount negated". Is that correct? > > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > -- > There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the > equality of the grave. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
