[ale] OT: Bank of America

[Bob Toxen]

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