Hi Anita. why would you expect a change in the opening balance account?
At the start of the year, you have some money (say €100), which shows up in an asset account as you say, transferred from Equity:OpeningBalances. You spend most of the money - so asset drops to €14, and expenses:whatever is up to €86 Your donor is happy to "unrestrict" the little bit of leftover, so asset goes to zero and Bank or Cash goes up by €14 Your opening balance was, is, and will always be €100. It is a fixed point in time - on April 1st (or whenever the year started) - not a running balance. HTH, Maf. On Thursday, 25 May 2017 12:11:07 BST Anita Graves wrote: > > Now, the money has been spent, except for about Euro 14 which I have > returned to the cash account. The asset account for the balance forward > was decreased to zero, and the expense accounts reflect the accurate > transactions. > > Problem: There was no corresponding reduction in the Equity:Opening > Balances account. Why? Why not? How can I fix that?? I don’t know how > to carry forward balances from one file to the next (i.e., from one year to > the next. I opened a new file for a new year by exporting the account tree > and started with 0 balances in every account. > _______________________________________________ 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.
