Editing Account InformationTo edit a particular account, right-click the account name in the Accounts View or the Institutions View and choose or with that account open in the ledger, select . A window will pop-up with several tabs, each allowing you to view and change certain information about the account. For more information on any of these details, see the section on creating a new account. Note that some of these fields may be disabled, possibly depending on the type of account. For example, Currency will always be disabled, since it can be set when the account it created, but not changed after that. Price Entry is only enabled for Investment Accounts.
This dialog has several tabs for configuring different aspects of an Account.
- General
View the general information about the account, and change the name, start or opening date, as well as some of the other basic settings of the account.
- Institution
View and change the associated banking institution and account numbers. You can also create a new institution here.
- Hierarchy
This shows where the account is in the overall hierarchy of accounts. You can change the parent account by dragging the account and dropping it on a different parent account in this view of the account hierarchy, or in the Accounts View or the Institutions View. You can also change the parent account here by clicking the new parent account and then clicking .
- Limits
This tab is only present for asset and liability accounts. If you enter amounts in the available fields, KMyMoney will warn you when the account balance reaches or exceeds those values.
- Tax
Here you can check whether this is a VAT account, and you can specify the percentage of the VAT. In addition, you can check whether to include this account on tax reports.
- Online Settings
This tab is only be present if the account has been mapped to an online account. It has three subtabs.
- Account Details
This shows the status of the online connection, the bank/broker, and the account number. It also allows you to store or change the password for the online account. Where and how the password is actually stored depends on your specific instance, but most commonly, it is stored by the KDE Wallet Manager.
- OFX Details
Here you can adjust certain details KMyMoney uses when it establishes an OFX connection with the institution. This should only be necessary if you get certain errors when you first set up the online account, or perhaps if your institution changes its OFX server software.
- Import Details
In the upper box, you can tell KMyMoney what to use as the start date for the import. The lower box has several items KMyMoney uses when creating transactions from the downloaded data.
You can choose whether the payee's name is based on the PAYEEID, NAME, or MEMO field of the imported transaction. Different institutions use different standards, so you may need to try a different value here if your imported transactions seem to consistently have the wrong Payee. Unfortunately, this only applies to Direct Connect, but will hopefully also apply to OFX file import at some point.
Some banks do not follow the OFX standard of providing a repeatable, unique FITID (Financial Institution Transaction Identification) which can cause duplicate transactions on repeated downloads. If this happens, you can change the method KMyMoney uses to detect duplicates from the OFX FITID to the internally calculated KMyMoney ID. This is not frequently necessary.
Importing transactions from an institution in a different timezone can sometimes lead to the wrong date on an imported transaction. If this happens, you can set a Timezone offset to adjust for the difference.
Very infrequently, an institution will create OFX downloads with the sign of the transaction amount reversed. You can click this checkbox to correct this problem.
A similar problem sometimes occurs, but only for the values in investment transactions, such as the purchase and sale of stocks. Clicking this checkbox corrects this.