2026-07-10 GnuCash IRC logs
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11:32:28 <tebriel> I have many years of QIF files, which I can import into gnucash, but my two biggest issues with the imports are: 1. the QIF don't define the expense accounts' deposits from income so they're all over the place and my investment accounts have been manually tracked with reconciliation transactions over time instead of tracking share prices. For 1, should I just cut to the last month and manually fill the
11:32:34 <tebriel> expense buckets from income to make things match my current system (or is there a different/better way?). For 2, is there a reconciliation method for tracking investment accounts that have a significant number of securities?
11:32:44 <tebriel> lmk if I should just drop this in the mailing list maybe that's too much to ask in irc. thanks
11:43:56 <warlord> tebriel, I think you should probably email the user list and give examples.. For example, I don't understand what you mean by "fill the expense buckets from income". You would never go directly from Income -> Expense. It always goes Income -> Asset and then Asset -> Expense. Or Income -> Asset; Liability (CC) -> Expense; Asset -> Liability.
11:47:21 <tebriel> thanks warlord, will do. To clarify I did mean income -> asset -> expense I just am new to gnucash and forgot when making my mental model to ask.
11:52:22 <warlord> The QIF file should have your Income -> Asset and Asset -> Expense transactions in there. What's missing?
11:52:56 <warlord> Remember that in QIF, asset/liability are "accounts" and income/expense are "categories". Whereas in GnuCash everything is an account/
12:00:42 <tebriel> "what's missing?" good q maybe I've misunderstood what I'm looking at. I'll review the data to see where I am confused before forming a more detailled mailing list post. I'm coming from Actual (and YNAB before it) so my history of thinking in terms of buckets and not accounts may be tainting my understanding.
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15:19:41 <jralls> fell, what do you know about SEPA standing orders?
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