Hi Tom,

Thanks for the feedback! Your qif related suggestions sound very
reasonable, but unfortunately cannot be implemented because qif file
itself doesn't specify currency neither for the account, nor for the
transfer. I hope that changing the currencies of the automatically
created accounts is not a big deal, because you are doing it only
once, during initial setup.

Alex
MechCAD Software.

--- In acemoney@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas van der Straten Waillet"
<tstraten@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody.
>
> I found the following problem (maybe not a real problem but something
> to mention).
>
> I was a Quicken user until 1995 when I started with Money (Spanish)
> and got along up to now ending with Money 2006 (English).
> But I need a Spanish program, so AceMoney was the choice!!!
>
> I made a (loose QIF) export from an account in Money 2006, and
> everything went OK.
>
> In AceMoney, I
> - created a new account when importing the QIF file (all defaults
> kept). This account is in CLP (Chilean pesos)
> - saved the new .mmw file
> - Import ended perfectly, no problems at all
>
> BUT:
> That account had transfers, thus Acemoney created the additional
> account with all transfers (nothing else as I did not export that
> particular account in QIF from Money).
> The problem is that that account is in USD (values are ok tho).
> So I need to go to the properties of that account, change the currency
> to from USD to CLP and say "NO" to the offering of updating the
> currency (USD -> CLP).
> Then, i have everything allright..
>
> I tried another import in QIF format with an account that was making
> transfers to 5 different accounts. They were all created in Acemoney
> with the correct values BUT all in USD, so I have to do the same
> procedure for each one.
>
> I would suggest perhaps that, if the account (originating the QIF
> file) is in a foreign currency, ALL transfer accounts created
> automatically have to be created in that particular currency. The user
> would have less work to do as probably he would have less "other"
> currencies than the imported one.
>
> In my case, CLP is "my" normal currency for my jobs BUT i have my
> personal stuff where I am using CLP (12 accounts) and EUR (3 accounts)
> If I wish to export everything to Acemoney, I will have the USD
> problem mentionned hereabove... (little grin).
>
> By the way, is it possible to make a little more "room" for the
> amounts in the reports? It is all right for USD or EUR but not for CLP
> (1 USD = 650 CLP so we need at least room for amounts like 999,999,999
> CLP in each column. (no decimals used in CLP).
>
> I am very happy to be the owner (yes, I bought it!!!) of Acemoney,
> keep up with the splendid job.
> I will give some Excel tricks that could be helpful if people wants to
> use pivot tables with the csv or txt data from acemoney... hope people
> will enjoy them
>
> Regards
> Tom
>