The import should assign them to whatever accounts you map. (the ‘other side’
of each being the account you are importing) If any do not, they’ll be assigned
to the imbalance account so they’ll be easy to find and fix.
The only issue with balances is that you’ll have to adjust your opening
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Fran_3 wrote:
My concern was if we 'import' all the 2017 transactions it will mess up
the balances... but I guess they will all just sit in checking assigned to
no account. We just thought it would be cleaner to have a separate 2017
file... I'm going to post another
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
We have setup a gnucash file for 2018 and created all our customer and
vendor accounts... plus customized the chart of accounts... and entered
all the transactions to date. Now we want to do 2017.
Is there a way to export the structure
You can export the chart of accounts via File - > Export Accounts. But it
will not include your customers, vendors, etc. It only saves your account
tree.
Note that there is no real need to start over. Gnucash is quite happy to
just continue, and the reports handle multiple years in one data
We have setup a gnucash file for 2018 and created all our customer and vendor
accounts... plus customized the chart of accounts... and entered all the
transactions to date.
Now we want to do 2017.
Is there a way to export the structure leaving the vendors, customers, and
customized chart of