Not true at all. You can edit it to your hearts content. I have on several occasions.
If you’ve reconciled it though, you’ll get a warning asking if you are sure you want to change it, and of course, doing so might throw off a reconciliation. There’s nothing special about the opening balance entry when starting GnuCash for the first time. It’s just an entry between a particular account and an account called Equity:Opening Balances. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 10, 2017, at 11:48 PM, John R. Sowden <jsow...@americansentry.net> > wrote: > > My suggestion is to never use the opening balance in an accounting system. > Instead, I create a series of General Journal entries, each with about 5-6 > transaction pairs, to cover all of the asset, liability and equity accounts. > Works well. I have learned over the decades that the programmer does not > want the user to edit the beginning balance once it is entered. > > John > > > > On 12/10/2017 02:01 PM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> >> I’ve been trying to reconcile my Checking account, but I’m running into a >> problem. The reconcile window displays a negative amount as the opening >> balance. I didn’t enter an opening balance when creating the account. After >> obtaining my bank’s statement and gathering the open balance as stated. I >> went to enter an opening balance in the” Equity:Opening Balances” account >> and it accepted the entry just fine. I then checked the opening balance in >> my checking account and it displayed the opening balance as I entered in the >> equity account. When I go to reconcile the Checking account, the reconcile >> window displays my opening balance as a different amount than the one I >> entered, and there is no option (that I can find, and yes I did RTFM)to >> alter the opening Balance. >> >> >> Why doesn’t a user have the option to correct an opening balance in the >> reconcile window? This issues messes up every reconcile operation that >> follows. I hope you (the community) can help >> >> >> OS: Windows10 >> >> GC version: 2.6.18 >> >> Build: git rev 3a9fbb8+ on 2017-10-08 >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Carmelo Pagan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> 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. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.