I apologize, Mark - we missed your second question. It sounds like you need to group Accounts into separate document files, which isn't something CheckBook is prepared to do at this point. CheckBook's data file is stored deep in your home folder, where it is automatically accessed and maintained by CheckBook and is, for the most part, a hands-off affair for users. We'll consider supporting multiple document files to provide the functionality you're looking for.
Regarding MYOB, we installed MYOB Premier Accounting v15, which appears to have replaced the old "Plus", and tested importing an export from CheckBook. The regular import feature would not accept CheckBook's QIF because CheckBook does not export an Account list along with the actual Accounts and their Entries. We've always felt the Accounts list served no purpose - the data in each Accounts list entry is identical to the data in the actual Accounts elsewhere in the QIF file. Now we see that at least one or two financial packages expect the Accounts list, probably as a table of contents, instead of parsing the file and constructing a list of Accounts - as they will have to do in any event when they import transactions and decide in which Account to store them. Without the Accounts list, these applications seem to think the incoming QIF is a statement file rather than a complete financial history. We can look at adding an Accounts list to CheckBook's QIF export to make this easier for users who work in multiple finance packages.
Regardless, we were able to import CheckBook's QIF into a bank register in MYOB and the Description came in correctly. I wonder if there's something about the way you're entering Descriptions in CheckBook that we're not taking into account during the export, and that's causing CheckBook to output QIF in a way that MYOB does not expect. The way to test that is for you to prepare a test Account in CheckBook, fill in some dummy Entries the way you normally do, export to QIF, test the QIF with your accountant to make sure the Description field does not import correctly, then send the QIF to us so we can examine it byte by byte to develop some ideas about what could be throwing off MYOB. At the same time, it would be helpful if you could send us the exact data you used to fill out your dummy Entries. You can send the QIF file and the dummy data to
support@splasm.com.