How does one enter opening balances, *per customer* or *per vendor*? So far that we’ve figured out, the only method is to enter a payment assigned to Equity:Opening Balances.
While this does accomplish the intended result, it is neither obvious or easily discoverable when first moving to GnuCash. Regards, Adrien > On Oct 20, 2019 w43d293, at 6:23 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stan Brown <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve >>> done it myself. It is just a regular transaction. >> >> I believe you, but I must say that that was very far from obvious to >> this new user. I couldn't understand why the Account dialog displayed an >> opening balance but wouldn't let me correct it. So I ended up making all >> my opening balance transactions myself, through General Ledger or one of >> the account registers. > > The O-B entry in a New Account window is just a syntactic sugar for > creating a standard transaction between the account and Equity:Opening > Balances. So after the account exists, you can just edit it. > > Creating that O-B txn by hand is effectively the same thing, just in a > second step instead of in one step. The end result is the same. > > In short, there is nothing "special" about the O-B transaction created > by the New Account dialog. > > -derek _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
