On 19 June 2017 at 22:54, Wesley Vick <[email protected]> wrote: > Greeting > > I am a 30 years veteran of Law Enforcement and I have been working part time > with a security firm. I own my own police car, uniforms, equipment, etc. I > have tried to produce my own records system until, I found your software. I > have begin entering all my expenses since Jan 1 2017. I have finally finished > entering all the expenses and entered the balance of my checking account. > Here is my problem. All the receipts posted have already been paid. The > balance of my checking account is what I have right now. After entering > everything, I am showing a negative balance of $6,000.00. How can I fix the > software to show the true balance and that is what is in the checking > account. Can I go into Equity and maybe show starting balance of the negative > $6,000 or do I need to go back to January and start entering all deposits > that have been made?
If you do not need to record transactions prior to a certain date you can enter a transaction right at the start to set the balance to whatever it was at that time. Don't forget to keep regular backups of your datafile (something.gnucash) in case something goes wrong. Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
