On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 20:53, Greg Stark wrote: > So I fear this will rapidly become an FAQ, but is there any way to set the > opening balance after a file has already been created?
Sure. Just open the account in question and edit the "Opening Balance" transaction. (Probably the first transaction in the account, unless you entered data for transactions from before you created your gnucash data file.) If you didn't specify an opening balance when you created the account, then just add a transaction like this: 2001-12-31 Opening Balance Equity:Opening Balances $xx.xx This is a transaction like any other. The only thing special about it is that it references the "Equity:Opening Balances" account. David P.S. You can change the date on this transaction. I changed all mine to the day before I started keeping my financial data in gnucash so it would always be the first transaction in the account.
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