Re: [GNC] Equity Accounts - Opening Balance or no?

2021-05-12 Thread David Cousens
Troy Please use Reply List or Reply All when replying to the User forum mail messages. This allows other users to benefit from the dialogues Assuming your file/book has been started before or concurrently with your business then yes. You would then record the contributions and draws as normal

Re: [GNC] Equity Accounts - Opening Balance or no?

2021-05-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/11/2021 3:39 PM, Troy Spindler wrote: Hey all. Does anyone know what's the difference between an Equity account with vs. without having "Opening balance" checked off? From what I can tell, they do the same thing. I have a new business with its own Gnu Cash file, and I'm trying to record

Re: [GNC] Equity Accounts - Opening Balance or no?

2021-05-11 Thread David Cousens
Troy, The Opening Balances in Equity record the net worth of your Assets and Liabilities at the time you open a new set of books/file. The option to create them when creating a new file is to accommodate the situation where you are transferring existing balances from a previous set of books/file.

[GNC] Equity Accounts - Opening Balance or no?

2021-05-11 Thread Troy Spindler
Hey all. Does anyone know what's the difference between an Equity account with vs. without having "Opening balance" checked off? From what I can tell, they do the same thing. I have a new business with its own Gnu Cash file, and I'm trying to record my transfers from my personal accounts as