Re: Null Account and more

Perry Smith Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:39:35 -0700

Derek has it correct. There are multiple accounts called "Fidelity Plus". One is a top level assert account with stocks below. Another "Fidelity Plus" account is a child of Interest and of type expense.

So, I'm hearing that an income account can have a child that is an expense account. O.k. That seems odd to me but o.k.

So, it looks like the only real mystery at this point is why we have InterestFidelity Ultra:<NULL> instead of just Interest: Fidelity

I'm reading the Gnucash design document as well as the guile reference guild today. My hope is to set a break point where the account with no name is created during the import and then try and figure out how we got there but I have a lot to learn first.

BTW, I find it absolutely amazing that you guys can import anything at all from a QIF file. What a totally lame "spec". Did you read that even Quicken 2005 is going to abandon it completely? (I bumped into that while surfing to find the QIF spec.)

Thanks for your help guys.
Perry

On Jul 23, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes:

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Perry Smith was heard to remark:
When gnucash imported this, it created a sub account under "Interest" called "Fidelity Ultra" and Fidelity Ultra has a subaccount with no name. I can see this in the xml as well as the Accounts window. There
Possibly a bug in the qif importer ???


Could be.  That code is a pile of hairballs...

 "Interest" in quicken as well as gnucash is an expense but Fidelity
Ultra is an income account and the account with no name is an income


Bad.  'Fidelity Ultra' should be an asset account of some kind, not
an income account.  You cannot use income/expense accounts to hold
anything of value.  Income/expense accounts are meant only to record
income or expenses, for use in cash-flow type reports.


Not necessarily...  What should happen, IIRC, is that you'll get
an account tree that looks something like this:

Assets
  +- Fidelity Ultra
     +- (stocks here)

Income
  +- Interest
     +- Fidelity Ultra

So in essence we'd get the interest income as a transfer from
Income:Interest:Fidelity Ultra -> Assets:Fidelity Ultra.

-derek

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