Re: Cannot edit opening balance

David, Now that you mention it, indeed :blush: There were two elements I wanted to bring up: - perhaps the starting balance was entered backwards (due to starting from the Equity account instead of the bank account) - and I wanted to stress the fact the starting balance should be ignored in

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

Geert, That's a nice summary. It's a lot like what is in section 4.4 of the tutorial. David On December 14, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op donderdag 14 december 2017 07:41:03 CET schreef Carmelo Pagan: > I guess I stated the issue improperly. I was

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

Op donderdag 14 december 2017 07:41:03 CET schreef Carmelo Pagan: > I guess I stated the issue improperly. I was trying to edit the opening > balance after a reconciliation attempt had failed. The reconciliation > difference was exactly the amount of the opening on my paper statement. I > then

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

. > > Carmelo Pagan > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of > John Ralls > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:53 PM > To: DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> > Cc: gnucash-use

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

mber 12, 2017 4:08 PM > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance > > Is there some reason you couldn't just change the opening balance in the > register to the correct amount, then performing the reconcile? > > RBM > > > > On 12/12/2

RE: Cannot edit opening balance

: Cannot edit opening balance Is there some reason you couldn't just change the opening balance in the register to the correct amount, then performing the reconcile? RBM On 12/12/2017 10:52 AM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: > I thank everyone for their feedback. > > I resolved it the painful way of

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

-Original Message- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of John Ralls Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:53 PM To: DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance On Dec 11

RE: Cannot edit opening balance

<davidcous...@bigpond.com> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance > On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:51 PM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > John, > > That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in > Gnucash (it c

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

My bad John, I replied to the wrong post. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:51 PM, DaveC49 wrote: > > John, > > That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in Gnucash (it > creates those entries) and once the entries have been created they are > easily edited either from the Opening Balances register

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

John, That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in Gnucash (it creates those entries) and once the entries have been created they are easily edited either from the Opening Balances register or from the register for the account for which you set the opening balance, just as

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

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

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

hn Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance > > Thank you Mr. Ralls. I will give it a try > > Sincerely , > Carmelo Pagán > >> On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:02 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

On 12/11/2017 3:17 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I would suggest reading section 4.4 of the tutorial, where the issue regarding handling starting balance problems is addressed directly. David I would also suggest learning how to CORRECT errors, which in formal accounting is not done

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

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 wrote: My suggestion is to never use the opening balance in an

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

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

RE: Cannot edit opening balance

ct: Re: Cannot edit opening balance Thank you Mr. Ralls. I will give it a try Sincerely , Carmelo Pagán > On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:02 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 10, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Carmelo Pagán <c.pa...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >&g

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

Thank you Mr. Ralls. I will give it a try Sincerely , Carmelo Pagán > On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:02 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Dec 10, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> >> >> I’ve been trying to reconcile my

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

> On Dec 10, 2017, at 2:01 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

Cannot edit opening balance

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