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
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