On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote:
Is the trial balance report in balance on 1 Jan 2017?
John, Yes. Thank you for asking. Because I rarely look at the Accounts tab I was unaware that the Imbalance account was directly accessible until Mike pointed me to it Working from the Imbalance account allowed me to quickly put those amounts back in the proper account, which is what I thought I had done at the time. Somehow, I missed the proper slot and the amount fell in the crack. Now the book is balanced and every account reconciled. When I spoke Tuesday with my accountant (who, like me, is a sole practitioner of professional services) I recommended she check out GnuCash for her business and personal clients. She said she would look at the web site, but this is tax season and she's working 7 days a week starting at 6:30 am, so I don't expect her to have time. I've used digital bookkeeping software since the mid-1980s (first on DOS, then on linux) and had used GnuCash with Red Hat 4.0-7.0. Slackware back then was very difficult to load all the gnome libraries in the proper sequence and I gave up in frustration. It was only a couple of years ago that the folks at SlackBuilds.org made GnuCash installation and upgrades as easy as all other packages. GnuCash is the easiest, most useful bookkeeping tool I've used. It supports my consulting practice as well as my personal bookkeeping and, while it takes a bit to get used to exactly how to run it, it Just Works. Knowing now about the Imbalance account will allow me to quickly correct any other mistakes. This past Tuesday it took me only about 5 minutes to prepare the balance sheet, income statement (P&L), and trial balance for both business and personal finances and send them (with digital copies of each month's bank statements) to her. Wow! Quick and painless. You may quote me on this and add my appreciation for all the work you devs do. Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
