Hi David/GNUCash users, For those that do not know and/or want to learn more about how OFX works within GNUCash - https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect & https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings (although that information may not be current/still accurate).
--- Thanks, Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ & https://norcal.social/@BradMorrison On 2025-01-16 12:21, David Carlson wrote: > FYI one of my credit cards produces OFX files that are reversed from the > standard that the other cards all produce. I suppose the same might happen > with the CSV format but if so you should be able to adjust the settings to > match. > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 1:56 PM Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > The statement from the credit card company is likely from THEIR point of > view. Just like the statement of your bank account you get from your > bank is from their point of view. > > What you owe them is a credit in your books but a debit in theirs. What > money they owe you is a debit in your books and a credit in theirs. > > Michael D Novack > > PS --- It was once always positive amounts in double entry bookkeeping > (older than negative numbers were accepted in Western mathematics). The > senses are not positive and negative but debit and credit. Those senses > do not correspond (whether a debit is positive or negative depends on > what kind of account -- same with credit. > > On 1/16/2025 2:22 PM, Tom Balazs wrote: I just imported a bunch of credit > card transactions from a CSV file. I > imported them into a liability credit card account, positive values, column > title "amount". > But they all the purchases / charge transactions went into the "payment" > column, not the "charge" column. All the other info imported fine. > > Apparently I have to make those transactions either a negative value, or > the column title has to be "amount negated". Is that correct? > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > > -- > There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the > equality of the grave. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
