[moneydance] merging accounts

[Merv Curley]

On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:35, Dave Hanson wrote:
> Quicken users, like me, often have two accounts for each investment
> account, e.g., Foo and Foo-Cash. The former (an Investment account)
> tracks the securities and the latter (a Bank account) tracks the
> cash balance.
>
> Importing these into Moneydance works fine. But online access only
> works for Foo, not Foo-Cash, and processing the downloaded
> transactions for Foo is awkward because Moneydance doesn't "know"I > 
>that Foo and Foo-Cash are related.
>
> I could simply do a one-time transfer of the cash in Foo-Cash 
todon't hide the cash account, why would you?


> Foo (and then hide Foo-Cash on the home page). I'd prefer to merge
> Foo-Cash into Foo, somehow fixing the transfers between the two
> accounts. Any way to do this, perhaps by exporting to Moneydance
> XML, editing the XML, and then importing? I suspect not :-(
> thanks,
> dave h

I don't download investment account transactions so your paragraph One 
works for me. For my many years of MD use, the one thing I would like 
are linked accounts but Sean doesn't see the need.

I have a bank account for Foo cash and use it the same as we did in 
Quicken. I never have a cash balance in my portfolio, if I do, there 
is an error. You will see every cash transaction in the cash account 
whereas in the portfolio cash section much remains a mystery. I'm not 
sure how you would find downloaded cash transactions in the Portfolio 
cash except from your monthly statements. Most months I have mainly 
cash transactions, [Int/Div Income] and sometimes Account Interest. 
Buys and sells are all transfers via the cash account.  

Matching one's Account statemnent for totals means adding the 
portfolio and cash accounts but that isn't a big dea for two numbers. 
My Account statements show a cash Account balance and I expect it to 
match my cash account.

if your Investment activity is high then you may need to download your 
transactions so using the Portfolio cash is your only option. I 
assume that your import is just from the startup QIF files. Doesn't a 
transfer to Portfolio cash work?

I hope that you find a solution which works for you.      

-- 
Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont.Can

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