I would suggest reading section 4.4 of the tutorial, where the issue regarding handling starting balance problems is addressed directly. David
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:48, 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.