US $ account adjustment
IMy original $ accounting program was Quicken. I moved my history into a .qif file & uploaded it into Moneydance. All accounts were in Cdn $ EXCEPT two accounts in US $ (bank & cash acct's). In the conversion, all transfers were double accounted. Basically, setting this up didn't allow for dfferent $ amounts in each account--so it doubled up on everything.
The US$ account doesn't have a lot of activity so I simply audited the CDN accounts to correct the entries & just let the US get messed up. I now have created a secont US $ Account & "moved" money from the old one so that the new one matches reality. In future, transfers will be to/from the new account & allow for exchange rates.
Last thing to do is address the OLD accounts. I want to have something actionable so that I can have the old accounts disappear/zero out/be hidden. In the future, I don't want them "noticed" by Moneydance in the "current" reality. So, not in any Summaries from now on.
I can delete the accounts--but do they mess up the history of the others? I can hide the accounts-but do they still "exist" in any Summarys that I go to (and mess up the actual Net/Valuatiions?) Basically, I want them gone from the Current but not messing with what I have now.
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1 Posted by Jim Moody on 04 Feb, 2026 10:25 PM
I'll need staff help on this one.
2 Posted by dwg on 05 Feb, 2026 01:49 AM
I'm a fellow customer.
You can mark the old accounts:
1. As inactive
2. Not to be shown on summary page
3. Remove them from the sidebar
4. Set them not to be included in Net Worth
and they should effectively be there but not there.
FWIW I believe there was a flaw in your migration approach.
When you have accounts in different currencies it complicates things. QIF files have no currency indicator at all, so there is nothing in the data that provides the needed information.
Typically, with a Quicken migration you would take the following sort of path.
1. Extract the Exchange rates from Quicken into CSV files
2. Create a new empty file in Moneydance in your base currency.
3. Import the historical Exchange rates.
4. Start to Import the Data into this created data file BUT
5. After the software has read the file and presented you with the account list, look at the list and set any accounts to another currency as required, in your case the base would be CDN and these accounts USD.
6. Now import
Provided Quicken has recorded and exported the FX rates correctly, Moneydance should be able to handle the cross currency transactions correctly and match them up. It cannot do this using the standard method of importing because the numbers do not match, once Moneydance has access to and applies the FX rate to a transaction it should match.
3 Posted by JIM MOODY on 05 Feb, 2026 04:10 AM
Thanks. Quiken option wasn't offered to me (alas). However, I've already done the work to fix my Cdn accounts so I'm happy to follow your first option.
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