Hi, thanks for that, but I cannot find any mechanism to "unlock" a read only account, nor does there seem to be anything in the manual about "unlocking?" Please clarify.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 9:29 PM William Prescott <w...@theprescotts.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is relevant … > > By default, the Opening Balance account is locked and transactions are > only created there when you create a new account and give it an opening > balance. But you can unlock the Opening Balance account and then adjust the > transactions or add or delete them like in any other account. > > Will > > On 2021 Dec 29, at 12-29 18:52:16, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 29, 2021, at 4:08 PM, Rogier F. van Vlissingen < > vlisc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I had previously moved to GnuCash3.8 starting 1/1/2020, unfortunately, > > there appears to be some sort of corruption in my file. > > > > I am now doing it over in 4.9. > > > > However, I am having a problem with the Opening Balances for 2020, as I > > seem to be unable to set up an opening balance for retained earnings. > > > > The numbers check out, but everything goes in Opening balances, which is > > therefore too high by the amount of the retained earnings. > > > > You can't even do a transfer. > > > > > > What is to be done? > > A business book wouldn't normally have an opening balances account. OTOH > money is fungible and it doesn't really make sense to divide every asset's > start-of-year balance between liabilities, paid-in capital, and retained > earnings, so it's in my mind quite defensible to use Opening Balances to > accumulate everything. Liabilities are handled by creating normal opening > balance entries. The New File Hierarchy Assistant doesn't let you make > opening balance entries in Equity accounts, but you can add transactions to > RE and whatever you're calling paid-in capital to zero out Opening Balances > when you've finished with the assistant. > > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.