My bank does permit the customer to assign a 'category' to a transaction, somewhat like some credit cards do. I have no idea if that info would be included in a OFX export.
David C On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Jon Schewe <jpsch...@mtu.net> wrote: > Ideally what I would like would be for some "real" transactions to > reference the parent account and some to reference the virtual account. > Then when importing the QFX the import process would look in the parent > account and the sub-accounts. > > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 6:15 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> 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. >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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.