What I do is keep two register views open on the 'parent' account, one 'with sub-accounts' which shows the totals as seen by the bank and one normal register view which shows the amount not dedicated to the 'virtual' sub-account(s).
As suggested in the thread that you cited, I do not tell the bank anything about the 'virtual' sub-account(s) transactions, so they will never appear in an imported transaction list and thus they are never 'cleared' via the import. While it is not required to have a register view open during an import, I always do, because I have a lot of cases where the import process makes matching mistakes or incorrect transfer account assignments if I do not monitor it. In any case, my reconciliation is intended to verify transactions with the bank, and it still works correctly in the 'with sub-accounts' register view. The 'Include Sub-Accounts option is not required. I then look in the 'virtual' sub-account(s) register(s) and I can reconcile them separately. For those accounts the reconciliation only tells me that I am satisfied with those transactions. As for budgeting, I do not use that feature, so I cannot comment. David C On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jon Schewe <jpsch...@mtu.net> wrote: > I've got a question about using virtual accounts along with QFX imports. > > I found this thread about using virtual accounts to do budgeting: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Virtual-accounts-td1421283.html > > I rather like how it works from the perspective that I know how much money > is available in my checking account for things that I haven't budgeted. > This also works well when reconciling against my statement as I can check > the box to include sub-accounts and everything balances. > > However when I import a QFX file, the importer will only look at the top > level account for transactions. This means that I need to manually clear > the transactions in the sub-accounts. > > My wife uses Quickbooks at work and says there is a view that works for her > for this. She can create these virtual sub-accounts and see their > individual transactions, however when she looks at the top-level account > she sees all transactions for the top account and the sub-accounts. > > Is there a way to do this in GnuCash? > > Thanks, > > - Jon > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 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.