[ale] OT: Bank of America

[Jeff Hubbs]

Any good quickie tutorials on double-entry?  I'm thinking about starting
to use SQL Ledger.

References to Vanessa Del Rio will NOT be appreciated. :)

- Jeff

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:49, Bob Toxen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:49:36AM -0500, Christopher Gilbert wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 23:31, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:12:24PM -0500, Christopher Gilbert wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:00, George Carless wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > I got GnuCash to work with BofA online too!
> > > Do tell!  I want to switch my accounting from paper to GnuCash and have
> > > online banking (With Royal Bank of Canada) and hope that they are
> > > compatible.
> 
> > > > Chris-Marlin
> > > Bob
> 
> > BofA online lets you download old statements in 
> > Quicken formats, I have another bank that use
> > comma separated values, It's GunCash's import filters that make it all
> > work nicely.
> 
> > The trick to using GunCash is understanding "double entry accounting"
> > they have a concepts tutorial on there web site.
> > "Double Entry" is suppose to be a better way to handle accounting
> > although I couldn't tell you why. 
> > My wife keeps the book. :)  
> The whole business world uses double entry accounting.  I understand it
> thoroughly.
> 
> > As for Banks in the US, they all suck!  I regret ever canceling
> > the HSBC account I had in Hong Kong.  I could keep up to five different
> > currency with my one basic account and convert between them online or
> > over the phone. They had tons of other free services that I just never
> > got to try out.
> You haven't tried RBC Centura.
> 
> HSBC suffered a large bomb explosion in front of it this week in Turkey.
> 
> > I any one knows of a bank in Atlanta where I can deposit Japanese yen
> > and Chinese yuan and not have to convert it to dollars that would be
> > cool!   
> 
> > Christopher-Marlin
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