Elmar, The terminology switches are a bit of a problem and those in the documentation likely my faullt. I have an accounting background and I see everything as either debits or credits and the relationships between those and various account types are now pretty embedded. I updated the CSV documentation after Geert rewrote a lot of the code a couple of years ago. I used the terminology that the previous documentation writer had used which was the Withdrawal/Deposit and Increase/Decrease for Liabilitiy accounts. rather than the accounting Debit/Credit headers. This is an option in the Edit Preferences_>Accounts->Labels which you can select to force formal accounting labels. I don't think the switching of informal and formal accounting labels has carried through into the importer from memory. The importer is also designed to deal with , a single column of signed amounts, two columns (debits and credits) with unsigned amounts.
Then further confusion usually arises because your bank regards your bank account as a Liability to them and your credit card as an asset of theirs. I will add a page to the https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/CSV_Import/Export page and put a table of equivalences there in a breakout pagehttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Formal/Informal_Label_Equivalence_and_Importing_CSV which may help in sorting such issues out. When I have time I will shift it into the documentation. i am a bit rusty on the wiki editing so it may take a day or 2 David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
