On Thursday 12 February 2015 07:26:07 Neal Lithwick wrote: > Hi > > > > First let me say I just downloaded this program and really think it is > well done. I have been using an older program called Money Smith > which works great for me but it is old and as the newer O/S's come > into play, it becomes a little less functional, soon to be obsolete, > I'm afraid. Also, I run both Windows and Linux O/S's on two different > systems and I use my Android tablet. This program will run on all > (well at least interfaces with the Android version). Super!! > I'm happy you like it so far :)
> > > I would love to migrate over to this program but I have one problem > (so far). I need to have the ability to set a Starting Balance for > the balance sheet items as I am not starting anew but migrating over > from Money Smith. Since every transaction needs to be reconciled, I > would have to go back 7 years and enter each transaction to get this > to work (Money Smith does not have a file format compatible with > GnuCash migration requirements). > You can define opening balances in gnucash easily. In gnucash this is very easy. For each account the opening balance is a transaction between the account and the Equity:Opening Balances account. So if you want to start the gnucash book from say Jan 1, 2015 you enter all the balances of all your accounts on Jan 1 2015 in the Equity:Opening Balances account. Will this help you ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel