Hi Chris, Don’t create accounts under Equity. Create your savings and current account under Assets. Then enter your opening balances as Stan Brown describes.
Peter -- Peter West p...@pbw.id.au “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury… > On 8 Sep 2020, at 10:52 pm, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I am at the stage of lots of rude words at the moment! :-) > > I am just starting to try and set up GnuCash for the PCC accounts and > I've fallen at the first hurdle. I can't work out how to enter > opening balances for the two accounts we have - a current account and > a savings account (which is basically the building fund). > > I have to say at present the help system is worse than useless, maybe > I'll get used to it later but it really doesn't help at all at this > beginner level. > > A search for 'opening balance' in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide > always takes me back to the top level whereas I want to search within > a section. HOw do I search for 'opening balance' in the Managing > Business Finances section? > > So, ignoring the help system, how do I enter an Opening Balance? > There's a section in accounts under 'Equity' for opening balances and > I tried creating two accounts under that and entering balances but the > result made no sense at all to me. Having entered an opening balance > I'd expect the balance sheet to show me that amount but GnuCash just > did a decrease and a balancing increase in the Equity account which > doesn't really make much sense. > > > -- > Chris Green > _______________________________________________ > 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.