I am thinking of moving to Skrooge from my present generally excellent finance program Money Manager, because that has a basic restriction of 'year-at-a-time', so cross-year reporting is impossible. However, I have 40 years' data in there (= 40 files), which I would have to extract by program into customised CSV files.

Q1: Can Skrooge handle such large amounts of data? (In fact the whole lot fits on a floppy disc, so total data size is small).

Q2: [Yes, I have looked at the forum]. Is there a recomended format for CSV import? Is it just transactions? Money Manager operates with short codes for accounts, classes etc in transactions, their definition & description being separate.

Q3: Can Skrooge do reports between any ad-hoc dates?

TIA Lewis Smith

lewyssmith wrote:I am thinking of moving to Skrooge from my present generally excellent finance program Money Manager, because that has a basic restriction of 'year-at-a-time', so cross-year reporting is impossible. However, I have 40 years' data in there (= 40 files), which I would have to extract by program into customised CSV files.

Q1: Can Skrooge handle such large amounts of data? (In fact the whole lot fits on a floppy disc, so total data size is small).

I think so and it's very easy to check because Skrooge is able to import directly "Money Manager Ex" files.

lewyssmith wrote:Q2: [Yes, I have looked at the forum]. Is there a recomended format for CSV import? Is it just transactions? Money Manager operates with short codes for accounts, classes etc in transactions, their definition & description being separate.

It's better to import directly the .mmb files.

lewyssmith wrote:Q3: Can Skrooge do reports between any ad-hoc dates?

Yes of course.

lewyssmith wrote:TIA Lewis Smith

Thank you smankowski for your replies.

<< Skrooge is able to import directly "Money Manager Ex" files. >>
<< It's better to import directly the .mmb files >>
Alas, the Money Manager I refer to is an old (but ongoing) British one, *not* MMEx/mmb.

So importing is going to be problematic. I would still need to know an import file format. I imagine CSV would be simplest for me.

Lewis Smith