Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve done it myself. It is just a regular transaction.
Regards, Adrien > On Oct 16, 2019 w42d289, at 9:42 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > It sounds like you have just one Accounts Receivable account, and you > put all customers' invoices in that one account. I hope I'm > misinterpreting you, because I think that would make it a lot harder > down the road to run reports by customer. I'll assume you have one > account for each customer, all under a placeholder account Accounts > Receivable. > > If you do, then you can specify an opening balance when you create each > customer's account. Unfortunately, as far as I can discover, if you > didn't do that at the time you created the account, you can't add it > later because the "opening balance" field in the account dialog is not > editable. (I have GC 2.x, so this lack may have been fixed in GC 3.x). > > However, I believe it's possible to accomplish the same thing by > creating a transaction of this form, dated the day before the beginning > of your first GC accounting period: > > Debit: AR:Customer 1 - Balance forward x.xx > Debit: AR:Customer 2 - Balance forward y.yy > Debit: AR:Customer 3 - Balance forward z.zz > (and so forth) > Credit:Equity > > That sets up your opening balances for customers that have them. I think > the credit properly goes to Equity, not to Income, because this is a > snapshot of how things are at a moment in time. > > The one thing I don't know, because I frankly can't understand how > reconciliation works in GC, is whether that would cause you trouble in > future reconciliations. > > On 2019-10-16 09:32, James Thorpe wrote: >> I didn't want to create invoices at all because >> a) I didn't want to duplicate documents that existed in a different >> financial period >> b) I didn't want to create entries in the Income:Sales table because >> these entries show up in the Trial Balance report even if they're not in >> the current financial period. >> >> So what I was after was a way to create opening balance entries in >> Accounts Receivable that also tied to a particular customer so they'd be >> picked up in the various Customer Reports. >> >> It seems this is not possible so I've settled for creating the invoices >> as duplicates but "fixing" b) by also creating journal entries in >> "Opening Balances" that cancel the entries in the Income:Sales >> >> Provided I do that before the begining of my financial period start, all >> reports look correct. > -- > Regards, > Stan Brown > Tompkins County, New York, USA > https://BrownMath.com > http://OakRoadSystems.com > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.