New 401(k) doesn’t even support QIF

drasch — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:18:48 +0000

The 401(k) program we switched to this year happens to have been a step backward as far as support for exporting transactions. In talking with Alan about it, he said he’d downloaded a program to convert the CSV they export into a QIF. In looking at the QIF format, I just decided to whip up something to do the conversion for me. This converts the export from MVP Plan Administrators to QIF and imports successfully into Quicken for Mac 2007.

#!/usr/bin/perl

#based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QIF

open(INH, "< ". $ARGV[0]);
open(OUTH, ">". $ARGV[0]. ".qif");

print OUTH '!Account
NDavid\'s New 401k
TInvst
^
!Type:Invst
';



while () {
        chop;
        chop;
        s/\$//g;
        @vals = split /,/;

        if ($vals[3] eq 'RECEIVABL') {
                next;
        }
        print OUTH "D" . $vals[0] . "\n";
        print OUTH "N" . $vals[5] . "\n";
        print OUTH "Y" . $vals[4] . "\n";
        print OUTH "T" . $vals[9] . "\n";
        print OUTH "I" . $vals[8] . "\n";
        print OUTH "Q" . $vals[7] . "\n";
        print OUTH "M" . $vals[6] . "\n";
        print OUTH "^\n";
}

close OUTH;

Known issues:

You still need to go through and mark Dividend transactions as such.
Doesn’t handle Sells very well, especially when these are to cover fund fees

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New 401(k) doesn’t even support QIF